.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will stay in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Champions formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Valet University as well as the Indiana Sports Firm once again will definitely serve as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals played at university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 teams (top-four teams in each capsule) and put the continuing to be 16 crews selected in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past males's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during 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 group reeled off 27-straight success finishing the regular period unbeaten and rated number one in the country just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament activities before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with each males's as well as girls's basketball, Douglass also delivers error for ladies's soccer and ladies's golf and served as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually broadcast live around ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.