.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Butler University as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again will certainly serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each covering) as well as position the staying 16 groups decided on into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association USA Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the record of St. Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the frequent period unbeaten as well as rated leading in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained 3 NCAA event video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with both men's and women's basketball, Douglass also supplies mistake for ladies's football and women's golf as well as worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Division I males's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be relayed live around ESPN systems. For more details on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.