.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the consolidated Departments I, II and also III Male’s Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant College as well as the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will definitely function as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into university websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each covering) and put the remaining 16 teams selected in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT added former men’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A.
Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph’s males’s basketball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 times and to 6 NIT appearances.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s group rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent period undefeated and positioned first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff then gained 3 NCAA competition video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association USA workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities along with each men’s and ladies’s basketball, Douglass additionally supplies oversight for girls’s football and ladies’s golf as well as functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Women’s Football Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be broadcast real-time around ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.