.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Steward College as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once more will function as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, second around and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the best 16 teams (top-four groups in each pod) and also place the remaining 16 staffs chosen in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past men's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the background of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories ending up the routine period unbeaten and positioned first in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that succeeded three NCAA tournament activities before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Conference USA workers in 2016 and also came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his responsibilities along with each males's and also females's baseball, Douglass additionally supplies mistake for ladies's soccer and ladies's golf and worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be broadcast online throughout ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.