.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and also III Men’s Baseball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again are going to work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second around as well as quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each shuck) and also position the continuing to be 16 staffs selected into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated previous men’s baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A.
Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Big 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of St. Joseph’s males’s basketball. With an all-time file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight wins completing the routine time undefeated and also placed leading in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then succeeded three NCAA event games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association United States team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities with each guys’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass also gives mistake for ladies’s football and girls’s golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Committee for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys’s basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I males’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually broadcast live all over ESPN systems. To read more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.