.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Guy’s Basketball Champions earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and also the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again are going to work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 groups (top-four teams in each shuck) as well as put the staying 16 staffs selected into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added past males’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
Along with an all-time document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular time unbeaten as well as ranked number one in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point won three NCAA tournament games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States staff in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021.
Along with his obligations with both males’s as well as women’s basketball, Douglass additionally delivers lapse for girls’s football and girls’s golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to join an NIT board that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I guys’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed online all over ESPN platforms.
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