.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will stay in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward University and also the Indiana Sports Organization once again will certainly work as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, second around and quarterfinals dipped into university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each covering) and place the staying 16 groups chosen in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated former males's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Significant 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the past history of St. Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine season unbeaten and also positioned top in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team then succeeded three NCAA tournament activities prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association USA workers in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with each males's and ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally provides error for females's football as well as females's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I men's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.