.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the mixed Departments I, II and III Men's Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy University as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once again will certainly serve as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the leading 16 groups (top-four groups in each shell) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT included former men's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A. Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant Five instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories finishing the regular period undefeated and also placed first in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point won three NCAA competition activities before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 and ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with both guys's as well as women's basketball, Douglass likewise gives error for girls's football and also ladies's golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted real-time around ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.