.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Men’s Basketball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University and the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each husk) as well as place the staying 16 groups picked right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each 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 incorporated past males’s baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team rattled 27-straight victories finishing the routine time undefeated as well as rated primary in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That crew then succeeded 3 NCAA tournament activities just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties along with both guys’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass also delivers mistake for women’s soccer as well as girls’s golf as well as functioned as seat of the NCAA Department I Female’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males’s baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans.
Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Branch I men’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be relayed live around ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.