.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Departments I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Company once more will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, second round and quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each husk) as well as place the staying 16 teams selected right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT included former males's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Associate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Big Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal season undefeated and placed top in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point won 3 NCAA tournament video games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with both men's and girls's baseball, Douglass also provides oversight for ladies's soccer as well as girls's golf and served as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I men's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be broadcast live across ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.