.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the mixed Departments I, II and also III Male’s Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will certainly function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the top 16 groups (top-four crews in each sheathing) as well as position the remaining 16 crews chosen in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT included former males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph’s guys’s baseball.
Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight success completing the routine season undefeated and ranked primary in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then gained 3 NCAA event games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A.
team in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with each men’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass likewise supplies oversight for females’s football as well as females’s golf as well as worked as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I men’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually broadcast real-time around ESPN platforms. For additional information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.