.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as part of the bundled Branches I, II and III Guy's Basketball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will certainly work as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 staffs (top-four crews in each hull) and put the staying 16 groups decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Huge Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an everlasting report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the frequent season unbeaten and positioned number one in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained 3 NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association USA workers in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with each men's as well as females's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for women's football and also females's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.