.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the combined Departments I, II and III Men's Baseball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more are going to work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the leading 16 staffs (top-four groups in each sheathing) and place the staying 16 crews decided on into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference U.S.A. Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of St. Joseph's men's basketball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories completing the frequent period unbeaten and also placed leading in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew at that point won three NCAA event activities just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association United States staff in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with each guys's as well as girls's basketball, Douglass additionally delivers lapse for women's soccer and also girls's golf and also functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted live across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.