.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Guy’s Basketball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to function as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team area with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the leading 16 teams (top-four staffs in each sheath) and position the continuing to be 16 crews decided on in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included previous men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Big Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of St Joseph’s guys’s baseball.
Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group rattled 27-straight success ending up the normal period undefeated as well as placed first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew at that point succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A.
team in 2016 as well as came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with both men’s and also girls’s basketball, Douglass additionally provides error for women’s soccer and girls’s golf as well as served as seat of the NCAA Department I Women’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys’s baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.