.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the mixed Departments I, II and also III Men’s Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will certainly work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the top 16 groups (top-four staffs in each vessel) and also put the continuing to be 16 crews picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A.
Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St Joseph’s men’s basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT looks.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s team rattled 27-straight success completing the regular time unbeaten and also positioned top in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff at that point won 3 NCAA competition video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event USA team in 2016 and became associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his obligations along with both men’s and also ladies’s basketball, Douglass also supplies mistake for females’s soccer as well as girls’s golf and also served as seat of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed live around ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.