.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the bundled Branches I, II and III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and the Indiana Athletics Company once more will definitely function as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 teams (top-four teams in each skin) and also place the remaining 16 staffs selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT added previous males’s basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Conference U.S.A.
Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Huge Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph’s males’s baseball. With an all-time file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight success finishing the frequent period undefeated and also positioned leading in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That crew at that point won three NCAA event video games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with both males’s and women’s basketball, Douglass additionally delivers mistake for females’s football and females’s golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys’s baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I guys’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually relayed real-time across ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.