.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the bundled Departments I, II as well as III Men’s Basketball Champions recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will certainly act as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each hull) and also place the continuing to be 16 crews chosen right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added former males’s basketball train Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A.
Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Large Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of Saint Joseph’s guys’s baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appearances.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the regular time undefeated and positioned top in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event USA staff in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his obligations along with both guys’s and also women’s baseball, Douglass likewise supplies error for women’s soccer as well as ladies’s golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Soccer Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I males’s baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted real-time across ESPN systems. To read more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.