.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant College as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more will act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each husk) and put the staying 16 staffs picked in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past males's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and Event United States Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St. Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the frequent time unbeaten and rated leading in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained 3 NCAA competition games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also became associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with each males's and also females's basketball, Douglass also offers mistake for females's football and also females's golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I men's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be relayed real-time around ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.