.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Men’s Basketball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Servant College as well as the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will definitely serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, second sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each sheath) and also put the staying 16 staffs decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous men’s basketball train Phil Martelli and Conference United States Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Big Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
With an enduring report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the routine time undefeated and also positioned number one in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team after that won three NCAA tournament activities before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event United States team in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for baseball in 2021.
In addition to his tasks with both males’s and also women’s baseball, Douglass also offers lapse for girls’s soccer and women’s golf and also functioned as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men’s baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will participate in an NIT board that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted real-time all over ESPN systems.
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