.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the bundled Divisions I, II and III Male’s Baseball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and the Indiana Athletics Company once again will act as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals dipped into university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each shell) and put the staying 16 teams chosen in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Also, the NIT added former men’s baseball instructor Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A.
Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Huge 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past history of St Joseph’s men’s baseball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff rattled 27-straight victories finishing the frequent season undefeated as well as positioned first in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That staff at that point won 3 NCAA competition games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association United States personnel in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with each men’s and also girls’s baseball, Douglass additionally offers error for women’s soccer and also girls’s golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female’s Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans.
Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I males’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually broadcast real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.