.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the combined Departments I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and the Indiana Sports Firm once more are going to serve as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each pod) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added past men's baseball train Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Significant 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the routine time undefeated and also placed primary in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point gained three NCAA competition video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event United States staff in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities along with each males's as well as women's basketball, Douglass additionally provides lapse for ladies's soccer and girls's golf as well as functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be relayed live throughout ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.