.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the mixed Departments I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Firm once more will definitely act as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each capsule) and also put the remaining 16 groups chosen into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT included past men's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the routine period unbeaten as well as placed top in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that won three NCAA competition games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities with each guys's and girls's basketball, Douglass additionally offers oversight for girls's football as well as women's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be broadcast online all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.