.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will certainly work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd around and also quarterfinals dipped into school internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheath) and also put the continuing to be 16 groups decided on right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past men's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Event United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the record of St. Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight success finishing the frequent time unbeaten and also ranked leading in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that succeeded 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with both men's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also provides mistake for girls's soccer and also girls's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I men's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be broadcast real-time throughout ESPN systems. To read more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.