.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will stay in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Male's Baseball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. House boy College as well as the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more are going to work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the leading 16 crews (top-four crews in each hull) and also put the staying 16 teams chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT included previous guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the background of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the normal period unbeaten as well as rated top in the nation prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group after that succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. team in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with both males's as well as ladies's baseball, Douglass also delivers error for women's soccer and also females's golf and also worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be transmitted live around ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.