.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will definitely serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each vessel) and also put the continuing to be 16 crews chosen into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT included previous males’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A.
Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant Five trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of St Joseph’s males’s basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 times and also to 6 NIT looks.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the regular period undefeated as well as ranked number one in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point won 3 NCAA event games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Event United States personnel in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both guys’s as well as girls’s basketball, Douglass also delivers error for ladies’s soccer as well as women’s golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Football Committee for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be broadcast live across ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.