.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Championships earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will act as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four crews in each sheath) as well as position the remaining 16 groups picked in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included past males's baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Huge Five instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an everlasting file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories finishing the frequent period unbeaten and also ranked first in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained 3 NCAA event activities before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with each men's and also females's baseball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for ladies's football and also females's golf and also acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.