.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Men's Baseball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once again are going to serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd round and also quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the leading 16 groups (top-four crews in each sheathing) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams chosen right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous males's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Event United States Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Major Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories finishing the regular period unbeaten as well as ranked number one in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew at that point succeeded three NCAA event activities before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. team in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities along with each males's as well as ladies's baseball, Douglass likewise offers error for ladies's football and also girls's golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and leisure at New Orleans. 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 previous Department I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be transmitted online all over ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.