.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and the Indiana Sports Organization once more will definitely work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, second around as well as quarterfinals dipped into school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each husk) as well as position the continuing to be 16 teams selected right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT included previous men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success finishing the normal time unbeaten and rated top in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that won three NCAA competition video games just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association USA staff in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with each guys's as well as females's basketball, Douglass likewise offers oversight for females's soccer as well as women's golf and served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be relayed real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.