.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the combined Branches I, II and also III Men’s Basketball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will definitely act as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second around as well as quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the top 16 crews (top-four crews in each pod) as well as position the remaining 16 staffs selected right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former guys’s baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph’s males’s baseball.
With an everlasting file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight success finishing the routine period unbeaten as well as positioned primary in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That crew then won three NCAA competition video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference United States personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his duties along with both men’s and also girls’s baseball, Douglass additionally provides oversight for ladies’s football and ladies’s golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men’s basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and recreation at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted real-time all over ESPN systems. To read more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.