.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Event are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College and the Indiana Sports Firm once more are going to work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals played at school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each hull) and also position the staying 16 groups selected right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included past males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Conference U.S.A. Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Huge Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the background of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the normal time undefeated as well as rated leading in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then succeeded three NCAA event video games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Event United States workers in 2016 and became associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with both men's as well as women's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies oversight for ladies's soccer and ladies's golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Department I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be broadcast real-time all over ESPN systems. To find out more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.