.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the combined Branches I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College and the Indiana Athletics Company once more will definitely function as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, second sphere and quarterfinals played at school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 groups (top-four crews in each pod) and place the remaining 16 teams chosen into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT included past males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine time undefeated and also ranked top in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew after that gained three NCAA event games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 and also became associate for baseball in 2021. Aside from his tasks along with both men's and also ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise provides mistake for women's soccer as well as females's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted online all over ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.