.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the consolidated Divisions I, II as well as III Guy’s Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and the Indiana Athletics Firm once more will certainly function as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field along with the first round, second sphere and quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 teams (top-four teams in each hull) and also put the remaining 16 crews decided on into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event United States Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Big 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of St Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
Along with an everlasting file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal period undefeated and positioned top in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That team at that point succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event United States workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with both guys’s as well as girls’s baseball, Douglass also offers mistake for ladies’s soccer and also girls’s golf and served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and leisure at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I guys’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be transmitted real-time across ESPN systems. For more details on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.