.INDIANAPOLIS– The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will remain in Indianapolis and be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the combined Branches I, II and III Men’s Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will certainly function as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the leading 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheath) and also put the staying 16 teams chosen into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past guys’s baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A.
Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past of Saint Joseph’s males’s baseball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph’s to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli’s staff reeled off 27-straight success completing the frequent time undefeated as well as positioned primary in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals.
That staff after that won three NCAA competition activities before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event USA personnel in 2016 and became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with both males’s and also women’s basketball, Douglass additionally provides oversight for ladies’s soccer and women’s golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female’s Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys’s baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans.
Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I men’s baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually broadcast online across ESPN systems. For more information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.