.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the consolidated Departments I, II as well as III Male's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Company once more will certainly work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the best 16 crews (top-four teams in each sheathing) and position the continuing to be 16 teams decided on in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated previous men's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference U.S.A. Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the history of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight success finishing the routine season unbeaten and also rated primary in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group after that gained 3 NCAA tournament games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks along with each men's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass also offers error for girls's football as well as women's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be relayed online across ESPN systems. For more information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.