.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and also III Men's Baseball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and the Indiana Sports Company once more will serve as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second around and also quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four crews in each case) as well as position the staying 16 crews decided on in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added former men's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight success ending up the frequent season undefeated and also placed number one in the country before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that gained three NCAA tournament activities before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association United States workers in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities along with each guys's as well as women's baseball, Douglass additionally offers oversight for females's football and ladies's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be actually broadcast real-time across ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.