.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the consolidated Departments I, II and also III Male’s Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Man College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will definitely function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each covering) and also position the staying 16 teams chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT added previous males’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Association USA Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the past history of Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball.
Along with an all-time file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight victories ending up the frequent season undefeated as well as rated number one in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That staff after that won 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties with each guys’s as well as females’s baseball, Douglass also gives error for females’s soccer and also females’s golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Committee for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I males’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually transmitted live around ESPN systems. To read more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.