.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the mixed Branches I, II and III Guy’s Baseball Champions formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Head servant College and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once again will serve as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each vessel) and put the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT included past guys’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event USA Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Major 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team rattled 27-straight victories ending up the normal time undefeated and rated top in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That crew at that point won 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities with both guys’s and females’s baseball, Douglass also supplies error for ladies’s football and ladies’s golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Committee for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually broadcast real-time across ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.