.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Men's Baseball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and the Indiana Athletics Firm once more will work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each case) and place the remaining 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT included previous guys's basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past history of Saint Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight success finishing the normal season unbeaten as well as ranked first in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained three NCAA event video games before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association USA personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities with both males's and also females's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for females's football as well as females's golf as well as functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will join an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Branch I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be actually relayed online across ESPN systems. To read more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.