.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Male’s Basketball Champions recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to function as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the best 16 staffs (top-four crews in each husk) and also position the staying 16 groups selected right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT added previous males’s baseball train Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Significant Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of Saint Joseph’s males’s basketball.
Along with an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight success ending up the regular period unbeaten as well as positioned primary in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That staff after that won three NCAA competition games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties along with both men’s and ladies’s baseball, Douglass also gives error for women’s football and also girls’s golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Soccer Board for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys’s basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I guys’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be broadcast live around ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.