INDIANAPOLIS — The semifinals and championship of the 2025 Nationwide Invitation Match will stay in Indianapolis and be performed at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive 12 months.
Indianapolis can even host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as a part of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Males’s Basketball Championships beforehand introduced.
The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship sport set for Thursday, April 3. Butler College and the Indiana Sports activities Company as soon as once more will function hosts for the occasion.
The 88th NIT will proceed to characteristic a 32-team discipline with the primary spherical, second spherical and quarterfinals performed at campus websites. For the fourth 12 months, the 2025 NIT will seed solely the highest 16 groups (top-four groups in every pod) and place the remaining 16 groups chosen into the bracket geographically the place potential.
Within the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship sport have been offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.
Moreover, the NIT added former males’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and Convention USA Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.
A legend amongst Massive 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach within the historical past of Saint Joseph’s males’s basketball. With an all-time file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph’s to the NCAA event seven occasions and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli’s group reeled off 27-straight wins ending the common season undefeated and ranked primary within the nation earlier than being upset within the Atlantic 10 Convention quarterfinals. That group then gained three NCAA event video games earlier than shedding to Oklahoma State within the East Rutherford Regional last.
Douglass joined the Convention USA workers in 2016 and have become affiliate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his duties with each males’s and girls’s basketball, Douglass additionally offers oversight for ladies’s soccer and girls’s golf and served as chair of the NCAA Division I Ladies’s Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the boys’s basketball group at Alcorn State.
Martelli and Douglass will be part of an NIT committee that shall be chaired by Tim Duncan, vp of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Different members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I males’s basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.
All NIT video games shall be broadcast stay throughout ESPN platforms. For extra info on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.
