.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Champions formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Man College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will certainly function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the top 16 groups (top-four staffs in each covering) and position the remaining 16 groups picked in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT added former men’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Event USA Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the record of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group rattled 27-straight success completing the normal season undefeated as well as positioned number one in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew then gained three NCAA event activities prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A.
workers in 2016 and came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with each men’s as well as girls’s baseball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for women’s football as well as women’s golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans.
Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I men’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be broadcast live all over ESPN platforms. For more information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.