.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the mixed Departments I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Championships previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will certainly serve as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the leading 16 groups (top-four crews in each shuck) and also place the staying 16 staffs decided on in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added past men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an all-time report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight wins ending up the normal season undefeated and also ranked leading in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point gained 3 NCAA competition games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Event USA personnel in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks with each guys's and women's baseball, Douglass likewise provides oversight for girls's football as well as ladies's golf as well as worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually broadcast real-time throughout ESPN systems. To read more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.