.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the mixed Divisions I, II and also III Male's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Firm once again will function as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second sphere and also quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheath) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams picked in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT added past guys's basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A. Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the past of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an all-time report of 444-328 during his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal period undefeated and positioned primary in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded three NCAA competition activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with each guys's and females's basketball, Douglass additionally provides error for women's soccer and ladies's golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I guys's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.