.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Man College as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more are going to function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each pod) and put the staying 16 groups picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added former males's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the background of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the frequent season unbeaten and also ranked first in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. team in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with each guys's and females's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies error for ladies's football and also girls's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually relayed online throughout ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.