.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Male’s Baseball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College as well as the Indiana Athletics Firm once again will certainly serve as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each husk) and place the remaining 16 crews chosen right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former guys’s basketball train Phil Martelli and Event United States Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Large 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest train 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 head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight victories completing the normal season unbeaten as well as placed primary in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point won three NCAA event video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA workers in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021.
Aside from his obligations along with each men’s and women’s basketball, Douglass likewise gives oversight for women’s football and women’s golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I guys’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be transmitted real-time around ESPN systems.
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