.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the bundled Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. House boy College as well as the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will definitely function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second sphere and also quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each pod) and place the staying 16 groups picked in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Also, the NIT included past men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event USA Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past history of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success finishing the routine time unbeaten as well as ranked primary in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff then gained three NCAA competition video games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference USA workers in 2016 and came to be associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with each males's and also ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally gives error for females's football and women's golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I males's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually transmitted live around ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.