.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the mixed Branches I, II and III Men’s Baseball Champions previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will certainly serve as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each case) as well as put the remaining 16 staffs selected in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and Conference USA Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of St.
Joseph’s guys’s baseball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight success completing the normal season undefeated as well as ranked number one in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That team after that succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties with each males’s as well as women’s basketball, Douglass additionally provides oversight for females’s football and ladies’s golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Board for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I men’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN systems. For more information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.