.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Departments I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Championships recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Head servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Firm once more are going to work as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four groups in each sheathing) and also place the continuing to be 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous men's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Significant Five trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past history of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the normal season undefeated and also placed top in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew after that succeeded 3 NCAA competition activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with both men's and also women's baseball, Douglass also provides mistake for women's football and also girls's golf as well as served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and also recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.