.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the combined Departments I, II and also III Men’s Basketball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and also the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the best 16 staffs (top-four teams in each hull) and also position the continuing to be 16 crews picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT included previous men’s baseball train Phil Martelli and also Association USA Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of St.
Joseph’s males’s basketball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the frequent time unbeaten and rated leading in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That crew after that succeeded three NCAA tournament activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with both men’s as well as females’s baseball, Douglass also gives mistake for girls’s soccer and also women’s golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men’s basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I men’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.