.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Male's Baseball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward University as well as the Indiana Athletics Company once again will certainly function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team field along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 staffs (top-four teams in each skin) as well as place the remaining 16 staffs picked into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added previous men's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent period undefeated and also positioned first in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded 3 NCAA competition games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. workers in 2016 and also came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with each men's and also females's baseball, Douglass likewise gives lapse for ladies's football and females's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.