.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the combined Departments I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Organization once more will definitely act as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, second around and quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each covering) and position the staying 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added past guys's basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight wins finishing the routine period undefeated and also positioned top in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team then gained three NCAA competition games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association USA staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks with both males's and also women's basketball, Douglass additionally gives mistake for ladies's soccer and ladies's golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT board that will definitely be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I men's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN systems. For more details on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.