.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Male’s Basketball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Butler College as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more are going to function as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, second sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each vessel) as well as place the remaining 16 staffs decided on in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A.
Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of St. Joseph’s guys’s baseball. With an all-time document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times and also to 6 NIT looks.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight wins ending up the regular season unbeaten and also rated first in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew at that point won 3 NCAA event video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event United States staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his obligations with both guys’s and women’s baseball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for girls’s football and women’s golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men’s basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Department I males’s baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually relayed online across ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.