.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and the Indiana Athletics Organization once again are going to function as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four crews in each skin) as well as place the remaining 16 staffs decided on right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added past males's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Major 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during the course of 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 appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success completing the normal season undefeated and also placed top in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then gained three NCAA competition games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association USA staff in 2016 and also became associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks with each men's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also provides mistake for women's soccer as well as women's golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually relayed online around ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.