Basketball

Indianapolis to host 2025 NIT Champion, declares brand-new committee participants

.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will function as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the leading 16 crews (top-four crews in each sheath) and also put the remaining 16 groups decided on into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT added previous guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time report 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 crew rattled 27-straight triumphes completing the routine time unbeaten and also rated number one in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that gained three NCAA tournament activities before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association USA workers in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with both guys's as well as females's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for women's soccer as well as females's golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be relayed online all over ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.