.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the combined Divisions I, II and III Guy's Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once more are going to function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, second around and also quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each shell) and also place the continuing to be 16 teams chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past guys's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent time undefeated and positioned leading in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained three NCAA competition activities just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event USA personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with both guys's and also girls's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for women's football and also ladies's golf as well as served as 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 baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually broadcast online across ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.