.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Branches I, II and also III Male’s Basketball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Man University and the Indiana Sports Organization once again will certainly serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each pod) and also put the staying 16 teams chosen in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included past males’s baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Major Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of St.
Joseph’s males’s basketball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the regular season unbeaten and also ranked first in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That crew after that succeeded 3 NCAA event games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event USA workers in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with both guys’s and ladies’s baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for ladies’s football and ladies’s golf as well as served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and recreation at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I guys’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.