.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Male's Basketball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Athletics Organization once again are going to act as ranges for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each sheath) as well as place the staying 16 staffs chosen right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT included past males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the normal period unbeaten as well as positioned leading in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point gained three NCAA event activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association USA staff in 2016 and also became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his tasks with each guys's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass also gives oversight for females's soccer and also females's golf and also worked as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be transmitted real-time around ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.