.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the bundled Departments I, II as well as III Guy’s Baseball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team field along with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each pod) and put the staying 16 teams chosen in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Also, the NIT added past males’s baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal season unbeaten and rated primary in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That team at that point gained three NCAA tournament video games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with each males’s as well as girls’s basketball, Douglass likewise delivers lapse for ladies’s football and also women’s golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Committee for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Branch I men’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually relayed real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.