.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the combined Branches I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more are going to work as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the best 16 crews (top-four groups in each covering) and also put the remaining 16 groups selected right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A. Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Big 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the normal season undefeated and ranked first in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point won three NCAA event video games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also became associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks with both men's and girls's basketball, Douglass also supplies oversight for women's soccer and also women's golf and served as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be broadcast live across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.