.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Sports Organization once again will definitely act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the best 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each pod) as well as place the remaining 16 teams picked in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated past males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the normal period undefeated as well as positioned top in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded 3 NCAA event video games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks with both males's as well as women's baseball, Douglass likewise gives oversight for girls's soccer and also women's golf and served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually broadcast live throughout ESPN systems. For more details on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.