.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the consolidated Divisions I, II and III Men’s Baseball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Athletics Company once more will certainly work as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four teams in each vessel) as well as place the staying 16 teams selected into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated past men’s basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Association USA Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Large Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past of Saint Joseph’s men’s baseball.
With an enduring document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph’s to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli’s crew rattled 27-straight victories ending up the regular season undefeated as well as positioned leading in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals.
That staff after that succeeded three NCAA event games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association United States personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with each guys’s as well as females’s baseball, Douglass additionally delivers error for women’s football as well as girls’s golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys’s baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and entertainment at New Orleans.
Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I men’s baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be transmitted online all over ESPN systems. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.