.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the combined Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Champions earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Head servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will certainly act as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field along with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 groups (top-four teams in each sheathing) and place the staying 16 groups decided on in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past men's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Association USA Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Large Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal season undefeated and also placed primary in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point succeeded 3 NCAA competition games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with both guys's and also women's baseball, Douglass also gives error for girls's soccer and girls's golf as well as functioned as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I guys's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be broadcast online around ESPN systems. For more details on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.