.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each vessel) and place the staying 16 staffs chosen right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated previous men's baseball train Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A. Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Major 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the routine season unbeaten and ranked first in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team then gained three NCAA tournament video games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association USA personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with both males's as well as girls's baseball, Douglass likewise supplies error for ladies's soccer as well as females's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.