.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man University and the Indiana Sports Organization once again are going to function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each case) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams chosen into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT included previous men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the regular season undefeated as well as positioned leading in the nation just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that succeeded 3 NCAA event video games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event USA workers in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Along with his tasks along with both men's and also women's baseball, Douglass likewise gives oversight for women's soccer as well as females's golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Department I males's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.