.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the bundled Divisions I, II and also III Men's Baseball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more are going to act as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the top 16 crews (top-four groups in each sheath) as well as position the remaining 16 staffs selected in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included former males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Conference United States Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the record of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the frequent season unbeaten as well as positioned primary in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew then succeeded 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Event United States workers in 2016 as well as became associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities with both men's as well as girls's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers lapse for females's soccer and also women's golf as well as functioned as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Department I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.