.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the mixed Departments I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Firm once again will certainly act as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, second around and quarterfinals played at university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each shuck) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams decided on in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past men's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past history of St Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories completing the regular season undefeated and also placed leading in the nation prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew after that gained three NCAA competition games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as became associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his tasks with each males's as well as women's baseball, Douglass also offers error for women's soccer and also females's golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.