.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the mixed Branches I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will definitely function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each vessel) and place the remaining 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A. Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success completing the normal time unbeaten as well as positioned leading in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew then succeeded 3 NCAA event video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his duties along with both males's as well as females's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for girls's soccer and females's golf and also served as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I men's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be transmitted real-time around ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.