.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II as well as III Men's Basketball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Man Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Company once more will act as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 crews (top-four teams in each sheathing) and also place the remaining 16 crews selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT included former males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Association USA Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Huge Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the routine period undefeated and positioned first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that won 3 NCAA competition games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Event United States team in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his tasks along with both guys's as well as females's basketball, Douglass likewise provides mistake for women's football as well as females's golf as well as acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Women's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will certainly be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I men's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually relayed real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.