.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the mixed Departments I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Company once more will definitely function as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 groups (top-four groups in each covering) and also put the remaining 16 crews chosen right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Also, the NIT incorporated former guys's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Major 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the routine period unbeaten and also rated first in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained three NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his obligations with each men's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for ladies's soccer as well as females's golf and also functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted live all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.