.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University and also the Indiana Sports Organization once again will serve as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second sphere and quarterfinals played at grounds websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the best 16 teams (top-four staffs in each hull) as well as position the remaining 16 teams picked into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's basketball train Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Associate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Major Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an all-time report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp instructor 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 rattled 27-straight victories completing the routine time undefeated as well as positioned number one in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained 3 NCAA competition video games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 as well as came to be associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with each guys's and girls's basketball, Douglass likewise gives lapse for females's soccer and women's golf and served as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I guys's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.