Basketball

Indianapolis to host 2025 NIT Championship, introduces brand new committee participants

.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Men's Baseball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once more are going to function as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into university internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each covering) and position the staying 16 groups chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT added former guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Event United States Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. With an everlasting record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the normal period unbeaten as well as ranked primary in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then won 3 NCAA event games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities along with both males's and also women's basketball, Douglass likewise gives oversight for ladies's soccer as well as girls's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be relayed live throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.