.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the bundled Departments I, II and III Male’s Baseball Champions recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the top 16 teams (top-four teams in each husk) and also position the staying 16 groups picked right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated past males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event USA Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Big 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St.
Joseph’s men’s basketball. With an enduring report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight success finishing the frequent period undefeated and placed first in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That group then succeeded three NCAA competition activities before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties with each guys’s as well as ladies’s baseball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for females’s soccer and also ladies’s golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans.
Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Branch I guys’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed live around ESPN systems. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.