.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to stay in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the consolidated Divisions I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will work as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals dipped into university websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each hull) and also place the staying 16 staffs decided on right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former guys's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Major 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph's guys's basketball. With an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight success completing the normal season unbeaten and rated top in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew at that point gained three NCAA event activities just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities along with both men's and also females's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies error for females's football and women's golf and also functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I men's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.