.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the combined Branches I, II as well as III Men's Basketball Champions previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Head servant Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once more are going to function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team field with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the leading 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each covering) and also put the continuing to be 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT included past men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Association USA Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Big 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular period undefeated and positioned number one in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then won three NCAA competition video games just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference USA team in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with each guys's and also women's baseball, Douglass also provides oversight for girls's soccer as well as girls's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I males's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually relayed real-time across ESPN systems. To read more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.