.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man College and also the Indiana Sports Organization once more will function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the best 16 teams (top-four teams in each hull) and place the remaining 16 groups chosen right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both nights.In addition, the NIT included former men's basketball train Phil Martelli and Association United States Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St. Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight victories completing the normal time unbeaten as well as positioned primary in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that gained 3 NCAA tournament video games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event United States staff in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his obligations with both males's and also girls's baseball, Douglass likewise gives mistake for girls's soccer and also women's golf and also worked as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.