.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will stay in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the consolidated Branches I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will certainly serve as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each covering) as well as put the continuing to be 16 groups chosen in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous guys's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Large 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight wins finishing the normal season undefeated as well as positioned primary in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew then won three NCAA event video games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 and became associate for baseball in 2021. Aside from his tasks with each guys's as well as women's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for women's soccer and also girls's golf as well as functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast real-time around ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.