.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College and the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will definitely work as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each hull) as well as put the staying 16 staffs selected in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT added past males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Association USA Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories completing the routine time unbeaten as well as rated top in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group after that gained 3 NCAA event games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event United States staff in 2016 as well as became associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with each men's and also girls's baseball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for women's football and females's golf and served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast live throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.