.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II and III Male’s Baseball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again are going to act as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the leading 16 crews (top-four crews in each case) as well as position the remaining 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT added past guys’s baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph’s males’s baseball.
Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight success finishing the regular period undefeated as well as placed number one in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That group at that point gained three NCAA tournament activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Besides his obligations with both guys’s and females’s basketball, Douglass additionally delivers error for females’s soccer and also ladies’s golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Soccer Committee for two years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males’s basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Division I guys’s basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually broadcast real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.