.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will definitely serve as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each covering) and also place the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added former males's baseball train Phil Martelli and Association United States Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the record of St. Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success finishing the regular season unbeaten and also positioned number one in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team then gained 3 NCAA tournament activities just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his tasks along with both guys's and ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise gives error for females's soccer as well as girls's golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I males's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.