.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will stay in Indianapolis and also be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the consolidated Departments I, II as well as III Guy’s Baseball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 teams (top-four staffs in each shuck) as well as position the continuing to be 16 teams chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated past males’s baseball instructor Phil Martelli and also Association United States Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of Saint Joseph’s guys’s baseball.
With an everlasting record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight success completing the frequent period unbeaten as well as placed first in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then succeeded three NCAA event video games before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA team in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021.
In addition to his duties along with each men’s as well as females’s baseball, Douglass also supplies lapse for females’s football and also girls’s golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I males’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games will be broadcast online throughout ESPN platforms.
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