.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Branches I, II and also III Guy’s Basketball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will serve as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals played at university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each husk) and position the continuing to be 16 crews picked in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past men’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event United States Associate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Big Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the background of Saint Joseph’s males’s baseball.
Along with an everlasting 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 opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight victories ending up the frequent season undefeated as well as positioned first in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then won three NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021.
Besides his responsibilities with each men’s and females’s baseball, Douglass also offers error for females’s soccer as well as girls’s golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I guys’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually transmitted online all over ESPN systems.
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