.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the mixed Departments I, II and III Male’s Baseball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and also the Indiana Sports Organization once again are going to work as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each pod) and put the remaining 16 crews decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past guys’s baseball train Phil Martelli and Event USA Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St.
Joseph’s guys’s baseball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven times and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s team reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal season unbeaten and also ranked number one in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That staff after that gained 3 NCAA event video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with each males’s and females’s baseball, Douglass additionally gives error for ladies’s soccer as well as women’s golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Board for 2 years.
As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men’s baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I guys’s baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually broadcast live across ESPN systems. For more information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.