.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the bundled Divisions I, II and III Male's Baseball Champions previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each pod) as well as put the staying 16 staffs picked right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT added past males's basketball train Phil Martelli and Association USA Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant Five instructors, Martelli is the winningest coach in the history of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times and also to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight success finishing the routine period undefeated and ranked leading in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then succeeded three NCAA event activities prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event United States workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with both males's and ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise gives lapse for girls's football and also women's golf and worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.