.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the combined Branches I, II and III Guy's Baseball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Head servant Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will certainly act as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 teams (top-four staffs in each capsule) as well as place the staying 16 crews decided on right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Huge 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories ending up the routine period undefeated and placed top in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew after that succeeded 3 NCAA event games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with each men's and also women's baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for women's soccer and also females's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be broadcast live all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.