.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the mixed Departments I, II and III Men’s Basketball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each hull) and also place the staying 16 teams selected in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former males’s baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Huge Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an all-time file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the routine period undefeated and also rated first in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That team after that succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event USA personnel in 2016 and became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities with each guys’s and also women’s baseball, Douglass likewise supplies oversight for females’s soccer and women’s golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I guys’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be broadcast live all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.