.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the mixed Departments I, II and III Male’s Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more are going to act as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 groups (top-four crews in each husk) and also put the continuing to be 16 crews selected into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated previous males’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past of St.
Joseph’s males’s basketball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the routine season unbeaten and also placed first in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That group at that point succeeded three NCAA competition games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his tasks with each guys’s and women’s baseball, Douglass likewise provides lapse for girls’s football as well as women’s golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Women’s Football Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually relayed real-time across ESPN systems. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.