.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the consolidated Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the leading 16 staffs (top-four groups in each skin) and also position the staying 16 crews selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated previous guys's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories completing the normal time unbeaten and rated top in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point gained 3 NCAA event activities before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference United States staff in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with both men's and females's basketball, Douglass also supplies mistake for ladies's football and girls's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time around ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.