.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the consolidated Departments I, II and also III Men's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward College as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more will certainly serve as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four teams in each case) as well as position the staying 16 teams picked into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous guys's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A. Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an all-time report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the frequent time undefeated as well as ranked first in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained three NCAA competition activities prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. workers in 2016 and became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with each males's and girls's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies lapse for females's football and also ladies's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Department I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be relayed live around ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.