.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into university internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each covering) and put the staying 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added former males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Major Five trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of St.
Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals.
In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight triumphes completing the routine period unbeaten and ranked number one in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff at that point won 3 NCAA competition video games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021.
Aside from his responsibilities along with both men’s and women’s baseball, Douglass also delivers oversight for females’s football as well as girls’s golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men’s baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted online around ESPN systems.
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