.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the consolidated Departments I, II as well as III Guy’s Basketball Champions recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again are going to serve as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each pod) as well as place the staying 16 teams chosen right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event USA Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Significant Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball.
With an enduring file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the frequent season unbeaten as well as positioned first in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded three NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference USA team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for basketball in 2021.
Aside from his accountabilities along with both guys’s as well as girls’s basketball, Douglass likewise provides oversight for women’s soccer and women’s golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men’s baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I males’s basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed online across ESPN systems.
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