.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will definitely serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 crews (top-four crews in each case) and also place the staying 16 teams decided on right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT added past males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and Conference USA Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight success finishing the regular period unbeaten and also placed leading in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained three NCAA tournament activities before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks along with each men's and also females's basketball, Douglass also provides mistake for women's soccer as well as ladies's golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.