.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Men’s Basketball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will certainly work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into university internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each shell) and also place the staying 16 staffs picked right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated former men’s baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A.
Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of St Joseph’s men’s baseball. Along with an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team rattled 27-straight success ending up the normal season unbeaten and rated first in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That team then succeeded three NCAA competition activities before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his obligations with both males’s as well as girls’s basketball, Douglass also provides error for women’s soccer and girls’s golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Committee for pair of years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males’s baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I men’s baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually broadcast live across ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.