.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Firm once again are going to work as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each skin) and also place the staying 16 staffs decided on into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Also, the NIT included previous guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Association United States Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Huge Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of St Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight victories finishing the regular period undefeated and also placed primary in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew at that point won 3 NCAA competition games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both guys's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also offers error for females's soccer as well as girls's golf as well as served as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted live across ESPN systems. For more information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.