.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College and the Indiana Sports Company once again will certainly work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals dipped into grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the top 16 crews (top-four staffs in each husk) as well as put the staying 16 crews decided on in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included former guys's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Event United States Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the record of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories ending up the regular season undefeated and also rated primary in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then succeeded 3 NCAA event games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA workers in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities along with each males's and girls's baseball, Douglass likewise provides mistake for girls's soccer and also ladies's golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time all over ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.