.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the combined Departments I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Butler Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more will definitely act as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheath) as well as place the staying 16 teams chosen in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added former men's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the regular time undefeated and placed number one in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded 3 NCAA tournament activities before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his duties with each men's as well as girls's basketball, Douglass likewise delivers oversight for females's football as well as women's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will certainly be 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 State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually relayed real-time across ESPN systems. For more details on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.