Indianapolis to host 2025 NIT Champion, reveals new board participants

.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the mixed Branches I, II and III Guy’s Basketball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and the Indiana Athletics Company once again will work as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each hull) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams picked right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT included past males’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Event United States Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of Saint Joseph’s guys’s baseball.

Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight victories completing the regular season unbeaten and also rated number one in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded three NCAA event games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A.

staff in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with each men’s and also females’s basketball, Douglass additionally gives mistake for ladies’s soccer as well as women’s golf as well as acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women’s Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men’s baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans.

Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I men’s basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be actually relayed live around ESPN systems. For more information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.