.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man College as well as the Indiana Sports Firm once again are going to function as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the best 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheath) as well as place the staying 16 groups decided on into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Associate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the regular time undefeated as well as ranked primary in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that gained three NCAA competition games before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. workers in 2016 and became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with each men's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for females's soccer and also women's golf as well as functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be broadcast live around ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.