.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will definitely work as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each shuck) and also position the continuing to be 16 crews selected into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT added former guys's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Major Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success completing the normal period unbeaten and also positioned primary in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group at that point won three NCAA tournament video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association United States workers in 2016 and came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his responsibilities along with each guys's and also women's basketball, Douglass additionally delivers mistake for women's football and also girls's golf as well as acted as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Branch I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be broadcast real-time throughout ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.