.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the combined Branches I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Steward University as well as the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the leading 16 staffs (top-four teams in each skin) and also put the remaining 16 staffs selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Also, the NIT added previous males's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Large 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the background of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine time undefeated and also ranked leading in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew after that gained 3 NCAA event video games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference United States personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities with each males's and also ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies error for women's football as well as ladies's golf as well as served as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will participate in an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I males's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually broadcast live all over ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.