.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Men’s Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Steward University as well as the Indiana Sports Firm once more will certainly act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd around and also quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each hull) and position the continuing to be 16 groups chosen into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated former males’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A.
Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Huge Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the background of St. Joseph’s guys’s baseball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the frequent season undefeated as well as ranked number one in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that won three NCAA event video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with both guys’s and women’s baseball, Douglass additionally supplies oversight for ladies’s football and also girls’s golf as well as functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Soccer Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males’s baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I men’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually transmitted live all over ESPN systems. For more information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.