.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the combined Branches I, II and also III Guy’s Baseball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Servant College as well as the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will definitely work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team field with the first round, second round and quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheath) and also put the staying 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association United States Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Major 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
Along with an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular season unbeaten and ranked primary in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That team after that won three NCAA competition games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference United States team in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with both guys’s and also girls’s baseball, Douglass also supplies mistake for females’s football and also girls’s golf and served as seat of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I men’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be broadcast online all over ESPN systems. For more details on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.