.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the combined Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Champions formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and also the Indiana Sports Company once more will work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four groups in each shell) and also position the continuing to be 16 groups chosen right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event USA Associate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge Five instructors, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the regular season undefeated and rated leading in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team then won three NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event USA staff in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his tasks with each men's and also women's basketball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for women's football as well as ladies's golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.