.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the consolidated Branches I, II and also III Men's Basketball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Butler Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again will serve as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each shuck) and position the staying 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT added previous males's baseball train Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. With an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight success ending up the regular period unbeaten and rated top in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded three NCAA event games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States staff in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both guys's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass additionally supplies lapse for women's football as well as women's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will join an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Branch I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted online across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.