.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the combined Divisions I, II and III Men’s Baseball Champions earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Athletics Company once more are going to act as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 groups (top-four crews in each vessel) and place the continuing to be 16 staffs decided on right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males’s basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Major Five trains, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the history of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an all-time report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight victories finishing the routine time unbeaten as well as ranked top in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That staff then gained 3 NCAA competition video games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with each men’s as well as females’s basketball, Douglass additionally provides error for females’s soccer and also females’s golf and served as seat of the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Board for pair of years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males’s baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I males’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed real-time around ESPN systems. To read more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.