.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Champions previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward University and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again are going to act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the top 16 crews (top-four staffs in each sheathing) as well as put the staying 16 staffs decided on into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both nights.Also, the NIT incorporated previous males's baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's men's baseball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories completing the normal period unbeaten as well as rated number one in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff then gained 3 NCAA competition activities before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association United States staff in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with each guys's and women's baseball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for ladies's soccer and girls's golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be relayed live around ESPN systems. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.