.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the mixed Branches I, II and III Men's Baseball Champions earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Valet University and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly work as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each skin) as well as place the staying 16 crews decided on in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT added former guys's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the record of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories completing the regular time undefeated and ranked leading in the nation prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament video games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association United States team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with each men's and girls's baseball, Douglass also supplies mistake for ladies's football and girls's golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually broadcast online across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.