.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely stay in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Guy’s Baseball Championships earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will certainly work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each vessel) and place the staying 16 groups decided on right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included previous men’s baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A.
Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Significant Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St. Joseph’s guys’s baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven times as well as to 6 NIT appeals.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine season unbeaten and also positioned first in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then won 3 NCAA competition activities before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event USA staff in 2016 and also came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with each men’s and females’s basketball, Douglass additionally provides mistake for females’s football and also ladies’s golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Soccer Board for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men’s baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice President as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Branch I guys’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed real-time across ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.