.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Men’s Baseball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will definitely act as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, second round as well as quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four teams in each hull) and also position the remaining 16 teams selected in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past guys’s basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Event United States Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Large Five trains, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the history of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
With an everlasting report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight wins completing the regular period undefeated as well as positioned primary in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That group after that won three NCAA tournament activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association USA team in 2016 and came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with each males’s as well as ladies’s baseball, Douglass also provides oversight for females’s soccer and ladies’s golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be relayed live throughout ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.