.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Men's Baseball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will definitely function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each shuck) and place the remaining 16 teams decided on into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added past men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the history of St. Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the regular period unbeaten as well as rated leading in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then gained 3 NCAA tournament video games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities with each males's and also women's baseball, Douglass also provides oversight for females's soccer as well as ladies's golf and served as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I males's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be actually broadcast live across ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.