.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the bundled Departments I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward University and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will definitely act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the best 16 groups (top-four staffs in each shell) and also place the staying 16 crews chosen in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT added previous guys’s basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A.
Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Major 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St. Joseph’s guys’s basketball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to 6 NIT looks.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the regular period unbeaten as well as positioned first in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group after that won three NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his obligations with each men’s and women’s baseball, Douglass likewise supplies error for ladies’s soccer as well as girls’s golf and also worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Board for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I guys’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually relayed online around ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.