.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the combined Branches I, II and also III Men's Baseball Champions formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Corporation once more are going to work as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second sphere and also quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheathing) as well as put the continuing to be 16 crews decided on into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT added past males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Huge 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the past history of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. With an all-time file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight triumphes completing the regular period undefeated and also ranked top in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that won three NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his duties along with both men's and women's basketball, Douglass also provides error for ladies's football as well as women's golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I men's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually relayed real-time around ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.