.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will remain in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the mixed Departments I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will work as holds for the event.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four groups in each hull) as well as position the staying 16 staffs decided on right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference USA Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the routine season unbeaten as well as placed leading in the country just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point won three NCAA competition games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event United States team in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both guys's and also girls's basketball, Douglass also delivers lapse for females's soccer and women's golf as well as functioned as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted online across ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.