.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historic 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 mixed Departments I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Butler Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Firm once more will certainly serve as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the top 16 teams (top-four staffs in each pod) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams decided on right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT added previous males's baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A. Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St. Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the routine season undefeated and ranked first in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that won three NCAA competition games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Conference United States team in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with each men's and ladies's baseball, Douglass also provides mistake for girls's soccer as well as ladies's golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted online all over ESPN systems. To find out more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.