.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Men’s Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University and the Indiana Athletics Firm once again will certainly serve as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four teams in each skin) and also put the remaining 16 teams picked in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated previous males’s basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A.
Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Major Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of St Joseph’s males’s baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group rattled 27-straight success finishing the frequent time unbeaten and also placed number one in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That staff at that point won 3 NCAA event activities just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities along with each men’s and ladies’s baseball, Douglass additionally gives oversight for girls’s soccer and also women’s golf and also functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I guys’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually broadcast real-time all over ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.