.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the combined Departments I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once more are going to act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four teams in each vessel) and place the remaining 16 groups picked right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT added former guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of St. Joseph's males's baseball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the normal period undefeated and also placed primary in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point gained 3 NCAA competition games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event United States workers in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties with each guys's as well as women's basketball, Douglass likewise gives oversight for ladies's football as well as females's golf and served as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually relayed real-time all over ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.