.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will remain in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and III Men's Baseball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will definitely act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each vessel) as well as position the staying 16 groups decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated former males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of St. Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories finishing the regular period unbeaten and ranked number one in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group after that gained 3 NCAA event activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event United States staff in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with each males's as well as girls's baseball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for females's soccer and women's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be transmitted real-time throughout ESPN systems. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.