.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the mixed Departments I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Company once more will definitely work as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four groups in each covering) and place the remaining 16 staffs selected into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association USA Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Huge 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an all-time document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the regular period undefeated and rated first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff then won 3 NCAA event games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his tasks with both males's and women's basketball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for females's football and also females's golf and also worked as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually relayed live throughout ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.