.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II and also III Men’s Basketball Championships earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant University as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more will work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each vessel) and also position the remaining 16 crews decided on in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT added previous men’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of Saint Joseph’s guys’s basketball.
With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight victories completing the frequent season undefeated and ranked primary in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew then succeeded three NCAA tournament activities just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event United States staff in 2016 and also became associate for baseball in 2021.
In addition to his tasks along with both guys’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass additionally delivers error for girls’s football and also women’s golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women’s Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men’s baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I guys’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted real-time around ESPN platforms.
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