.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Men's Baseball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and the Indiana Sports Organization once more are going to work as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, second round and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each case) and put the continuing to be 16 teams chosen into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past males's basketball train Phil Martelli and Conference United States Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Large 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the routine period unbeaten and also ranked number one in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded three NCAA competition activities prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference USA personnel in 2016 as well as became associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his tasks along with each men's and also females's baseball, Douglass additionally gives error for girls's football as well as girls's golf and served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted online throughout ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.