.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Male’s Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again will certainly function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, second round as well as quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 teams (top-four teams in each sheathing) and also position the continuing to be 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past guys’s basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant Five instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight success ending up the routine period undefeated and positioned leading in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That group then succeeded three NCAA event video games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities with both guys’s as well as women’s baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for women’s football and ladies’s golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Football Board for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males’s basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I men’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be broadcast live across ESPN systems. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.