.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Champions formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Head servant College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, second round and quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each shell) as well as place the continuing to be 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Major 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph's guys's basketball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer 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 rattled 27-straight wins completing the frequent period unbeaten as well as placed number one in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that won 3 NCAA competition video games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association USA team in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with both males's and ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise gives error for girls's football as well as women's golf and also served as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.