.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and also III Male's Baseball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly serve as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each husk) as well as position the staying 16 groups selected into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal time undefeated as well as rated primary in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded 3 NCAA tournament activities prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event United States workers in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties along with each males's and also women's baseball, Douglass also provides mistake for women's soccer and also girls's golf and functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast real-time all over ESPN systems. To read more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.