.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the consolidated Divisions I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheathing) as well as position the staying 16 teams decided on right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added former guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference United States Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Major Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the history of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories completing the normal season unbeaten as well as placed leading in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team after that won 3 NCAA tournament games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities along with both guys's and females's basketball, Douglass likewise gives error for girls's football as well as ladies's golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted live throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.