.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Man College and also the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more are going to serve as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at school web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each covering) and also place the continuing to be 16 staffs picked right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former men's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event USA Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Major Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success ending up the normal time undefeated and also positioned leading in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that won 3 NCAA event video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event United States personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his obligations with both men's as well as women's basketball, Douglass additionally delivers error for women's football and females's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be broadcast online around ESPN systems. To find out more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.