.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Company once again will work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each husk) and put the continuing to be 16 staffs selected into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated past guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success completing the normal period unbeaten and also rated leading in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that gained three NCAA competition activities just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association USA workers in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with each guys's and ladies's baseball, Douglass additionally offers lapse for girls's soccer and ladies's golf and acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I males's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be broadcast online around ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.