.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the combined Departments I, II and also III Guy’s Basketball Championships previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd around and also quarterfinals played at school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each vessel) and put the remaining 16 staffs chosen in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Also, the NIT added past guys’s basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball.
Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group rattled 27-straight wins completing the regular time undefeated as well as positioned primary in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team at that point won three NCAA tournament video games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A.
staff in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with each men’s as well as girls’s baseball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for ladies’s soccer as well as ladies’s golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Department I men’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be relayed real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more details on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.