.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team area with the first round, second around and quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the leading 16 staffs (top-four crews in each sheathing) and place the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added former males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of St Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the regular time unbeaten and rated primary in the nation just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that succeeded three NCAA event video games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event USA workers in 2016 and became associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities with both males's as well as females's baseball, Douglass also gives oversight for girls's soccer and ladies's golf and served as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually relayed real-time across ESPN systems. For more details on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.