.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will remain in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Men's Basketball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Valet College as well as the Indiana Athletics Company once again will certainly work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheathing) as well as put the continuing to be 16 groups picked right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added former guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of St Joseph's males's baseball. With an enduring file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the normal season unbeaten as well as ranked primary in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff then succeeded three NCAA competition activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference United States staff in 2016 and became associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with each males's and women's baseball, Douglass also supplies lapse for ladies's soccer as well as females's golf as well as served as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be relayed real-time around ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.