.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will also host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Male’s Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and also the Indiana Athletics Company once more will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, second sphere and also quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each husk) as well as position the staying 16 staffs decided on in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past males’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of St Joseph’s guys’s baseball.
With an everlasting file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine time unbeaten and rated top in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That staff then succeeded three NCAA tournament video games before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association USA personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks along with both men’s and also women’s baseball, Douglass likewise provides oversight for ladies’s football and girls’s golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I men’s baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed real-time across ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.