.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Head servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals dipped into university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four teams in each hull) as well as put the remaining 16 staffs chosen in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added former males’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A.
Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Huge Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an enduring report of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the normal time unbeaten as well as placed first in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That team after that gained 3 NCAA competition video games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association USA workers in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties along with both men’s as well as girls’s baseball, Douglass also offers mistake for ladies’s soccer and also girls’s golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be broadcast online all over ESPN platforms. For additional information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.