.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the combined Departments I, II and also III Guy’s Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more are going to act as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four teams in each skin) as well as put the remaining 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT added former men’s baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph’s guys’s baseball.
Along with an enduring document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine period undefeated as well as rated number one in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team at that point won 3 NCAA tournament activities prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event United States team in 2016 and ended up being associate for baseball in 2021.
Along with his duties with each males’s and ladies’s basketball, Douglass additionally gives lapse for ladies’s football and females’s golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men’s basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT board that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be transmitted live throughout ESPN platforms.
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