.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and the Indiana Sports Organization once more will certainly work as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each case) and also position the continuing to be 16 staffs picked right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated previous guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Significant Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal period unbeaten as well as rated leading in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew then gained 3 NCAA tournament games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Event United States staff in 2016 and also became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his tasks with each guys's and females's baseball, Douglass likewise provides lapse for females's soccer and ladies's golf and also worked as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be relayed live throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.