.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the combined Departments I, II and III Guy’s Basketball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will certainly work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each pod) as well as place the staying 16 staffs picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated past males’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Event USA Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of St.
Joseph’s guys’s baseball. Along with an everlasting file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven opportunities and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the regular season unbeaten and rated number one in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That crew after that won 3 NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities with each males’s and ladies’s basketball, Douglass likewise provides mistake for girls’s football as well as females’s golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Committee for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys’s baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be relayed live all over ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.