.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II and also III Men’s Baseball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again will act as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, second around and quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each case) and place the remaining 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated previous men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and Event United States Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of St.
Joseph’s guys’s baseball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the routine season unbeaten as well as rated leading in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That crew then succeeded three NCAA competition games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States workers in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his obligations with each guys’s and ladies’s baseball, Douglass additionally delivers lapse for girls’s soccer and also girls’s golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s baseball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans.
Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I men’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be actually relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.