.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Men's Baseball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will certainly function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each pod) and place the staying 16 staffs chosen in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added past guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference United States Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of St Joseph's males's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal time unbeaten as well as placed number one in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then won 3 NCAA tournament activities just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA workers in 2016 and also became associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his duties with each men's and also females's basketball, Douglass also supplies error for ladies's football and also girls's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually relayed online across ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.