.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College and also the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team field along with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at campus internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the leading 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each case) and position the staying 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated former males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins completing the normal period unbeaten as well as rated top in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group then succeeded three NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Event USA team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with both men's and also girls's baseball, Douglass also supplies lapse for ladies's football as well as females's golf and functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be transmitted live throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.