.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the combined Branches I, II and III Guy's Baseball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Company once more are going to work as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, second sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the top 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each shell) as well as place the remaining 16 crews decided on in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT included former guys's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight success finishing the frequent time undefeated and ranked primary in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that won three NCAA event games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association United States team in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities along with both guys's and also females's baseball, Douglass also supplies lapse for females's soccer as well as women's golf as well as functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I guys's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.