.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the mixed Departments I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Firm once more will certainly work as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the best 16 groups (top-four groups in each capsule) as well as place the continuing to be 16 staffs decided on right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT added previous men's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Event USA Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St. Joseph's males's baseball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the routine period unbeaten and also rated first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff then won three NCAA event games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties along with each men's and women's baseball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for females's soccer and ladies's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Department I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.