.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the bundled Divisions I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once again are going to act as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each husk) and also position the remaining 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Also, the NIT included previous men's baseball train Phil Martelli and Association USA Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Large Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the past of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular time unbeaten and also rated leading in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then won three NCAA competition activities just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. workers in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with both males's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also supplies lapse for females's football and also girls's golf as well as acted as chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be actually relayed live across ESPN systems. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.