.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the consolidated Divisions I, II as well as III Male's Baseball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will certainly act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the top 16 crews (top-four crews in each pod) and also position the remaining 16 teams chosen in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included previous men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Association United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Significant 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success ending up the routine season undefeated and rated top in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew after that won 3 NCAA competition games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association United States personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities with each guys's and girls's baseball, Douglass also provides lapse for girls's football as well as females's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted online across ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.