.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again will definitely serve as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each vessel) and also position the remaining 16 crews chosen in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated previous males's baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Event U.S.A. Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the background of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the routine season unbeaten as well as ranked primary in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that gained 3 NCAA tournament games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with each guys's and also girls's basketball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for females's soccer as well as girls's golf as well as functioned as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I men's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast real-time around ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.