.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Champions recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College as well as the Indiana Athletics Company once again are going to function as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second around and quarterfinals played at school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 groups (top-four groups in each case) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams picked right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT incorporated past men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Major 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight wins ending up the frequent time undefeated as well as positioned primary in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded three NCAA tournament activities before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event USA team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with both males's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass also delivers oversight for women's football as well as ladies's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be broadcast online around ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.