.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to remain in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the combined Departments I, II and III Guy's Basketball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will certainly serve as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second around as well as quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the leading 16 groups (top-four teams in each pod) and also place the staying 16 teams chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT included past guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference USA Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Huge 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight triumphes completing the regular season unbeaten and also positioned primary in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew after that won 3 NCAA event games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event United States team in 2016 and also became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his obligations with both men's as well as women's baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for females's football and also girls's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be relayed real-time all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.