.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the mixed Branches I, II and III Male's Baseball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Butler College and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will act as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each skin) as well as put the remaining 16 crews picked into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Also, the NIT included previous men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Event United States Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. With an everlasting record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success finishing the routine season unbeaten and placed primary in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded three NCAA event video games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association USA team in 2016 and also became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his obligations along with each guys's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also supplies lapse for females's soccer as well as women's golf as well as served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be actually relayed real-time all over ESPN systems. For more information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.