.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the mixed Branches I, II and also III Men's Baseball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will certainly act as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, second sphere and also quarterfinals played at university websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each sheath) and also position the continuing to be 16 teams chosen into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included former guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference USA Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal time undefeated as well as ranked top in the nation just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point won 3 NCAA tournament games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event USA team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his duties with both men's and also women's baseball, Douglass likewise gives mistake for girls's football and also women's golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted real-time throughout ESPN systems. To read more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.