.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the combined Departments I, II and III Male’s Basketball Champions formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Valet University and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will certainly act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four crews in each case) and also position the continuing to be 16 crews picked in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference USA Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Large Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the frequent period undefeated as well as rated top in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association USA personnel in 2016 and also became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties with each guys’s as well as women’s baseball, Douglass additionally provides error for females’s soccer and also females’s golf as well as worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Football Committee for pair of years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I males’s baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.