.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to stay in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the combined Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again will function as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 groups (top-four groups in each covering) and also position the remaining 16 teams selected right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included former males's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference U.S.A. Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the background of St. Joseph's males's basketball. With an all-time file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight success completing the regular period undefeated and rated primary in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded three NCAA event games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Association United States team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with both males's and also girls's basketball, Douglass additionally gives mistake for girls's soccer as well as ladies's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I males's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually broadcast online all over ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.