.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will continue to be in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the bundled Departments I, II and III Male’s Baseball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Firm once again will definitely act as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the leading 16 groups (top-four crews in each vessel) and also position the staying 16 teams decided on right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past guys’s baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball.
Along with an all-time report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the regular period unbeaten as well as rated primary in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that succeeded three NCAA tournament activities just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A.
team in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his tasks along with each men’s and also ladies’s baseball, Douglass likewise supplies oversight for females’s football as well as women’s golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men’s baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans.
Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.