.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the consolidated Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will definitely act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the best 16 groups (top-four staffs in each capsule) and also place the remaining 16 crews chosen in to the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each nights.In addition, the NIT added former males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Event United States Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Large 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins completing the routine period unbeaten and also placed first in the nation prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament activities prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. workers in 2016 and became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks along with each males's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for women's soccer and girls's golf and also functioned as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually transmitted real-time around ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.