.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the combined Departments I, II as well as III Men’s Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Butler University and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will certainly serve as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals dipped into university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each hull) as well as position the staying 16 teams selected in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated previous men’s basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A.
Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Major Five trains, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal time unbeaten as well as ranked first in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That crew then won 3 NCAA competition activities just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. workers in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his obligations with each guys’s as well as girls’s basketball, Douglass also provides error for girls’s football and also women’s golf as well as worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I men’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be broadcast live across ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.