.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the mixed Branches I, II and III Guy’s Baseball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again are going to serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four crews in each shell) and also position the remaining 16 staffs decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT added former men’s basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Event United States Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
With an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight success ending up the regular time undefeated and also rated primary in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That staff at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks along with each guys’s and also ladies’s baseball, Douglass likewise offers error for women’s football and also females’s golf as well as worked as seat of the NCAA Department I Female’s Soccer Board for pair of years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men’s basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I males’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.