.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the consolidated Divisions I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Champions formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Head servant College and the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to work as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four crews in each shuck) and place the staying 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included former men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Affiliate 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 train in the record of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the normal time unbeaten as well as positioned leading in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That group after that succeeded 3 NCAA event video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event United States team in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with each males’s as well as females’s basketball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for women’s soccer and girls’s golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I men’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be broadcast real-time all over ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.