.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Men's Baseball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each case) as well as put the remaining 16 teams selected into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated former guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past history of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring document of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories finishing the routine time unbeaten as well as placed first in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Event USA team in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks with both men's and women's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for ladies's soccer and also females's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be relayed live around ESPN systems. To read more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.