.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Guy’s Basketball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man University as well as the Indiana Athletics Company once again are going to act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheath) and place the continuing to be 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT added past men’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A.
Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the history of St Joseph’s males’s baseball. With an enduring report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal period undefeated and placed top in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals.
That staff at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event activities before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Association USA workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his duties with each guys’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass also gives lapse for females’s soccer and also ladies’s golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men’s basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports as well as relaxation at New Orleans.
Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually broadcast live throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.