.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Servant University as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again will definitely work as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the top 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each shell) and place the staying 16 staffs selected in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included previous men's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent period unbeaten and ranked number one in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then won 3 NCAA competition games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. In addition to his obligations along with both men's and ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally provides mistake for ladies's soccer and females's golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT board that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I males's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be relayed real-time all over ESPN platforms. To find out more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.