.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the combined Departments I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Champions formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant University as well as the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will function as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 staffs (top-four groups in each pod) and also position the continuing to be 16 groups decided on right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT included previous guys’s basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference U.S.A.
Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Significant 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St. Joseph’s guys’s basketball. With an all-time file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times as well as to six NIT appearances.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight victories completing the regular period undefeated and rated first in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded three NCAA event activities prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021.
In addition to his accountabilities along with both males’s and girls’s baseball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for females’s football and girls’s golf and served as chair of the NCAA Department I Female’s Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men’s baseball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I guys’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be transmitted live across ESPN systems.
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