.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Organization once more will definitely function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second around as well as quarterfinals played at school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 teams (top-four groups in each case) and also place the continuing to be 16 groups decided on into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT included past males’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Event USA Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular time unbeaten and positioned leading in the nation prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group then succeeded three NCAA event games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference USA workers in 2016 as well as came to be associate for baseball in 2021.
Besides his accountabilities along with both males’s and also ladies’s baseball, Douglass additionally delivers oversight for females’s soccer and ladies’s golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I men’s baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be actually broadcast online all over ESPN platforms.
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