Basketball

Indianapolis to hold 2025 NIT Champion, introduces brand new committee participants

.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the combined Departments I, II and also III Male's Baseball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into grounds internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each husk) and put the staying 16 staffs chosen in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included former guys's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of St Joseph's guys's basketball. With an all-time report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories completing the regular time unbeaten as well as ranked top in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group after that won three NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association USA personnel in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with each men's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally gives error for women's football and girls's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be relayed real-time all over ESPN systems. For more information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.