.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II as well as III Male's Baseball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will act as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 crews (top-four groups in each husk) and place the staying 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous males's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight victories completing the regular period unbeaten as well as placed leading in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with both guys's and girls's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for women's soccer and also ladies's golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be broadcast online around ESPN systems. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.