.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly stay in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the bundled Departments I, II and also III Male's Basketball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Organization once more will function as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the best 16 staffs (top-four crews in each shell) and put the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the normal season undefeated and also rated leading in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded 3 NCAA tournament video games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with both men's as well as females's basketball, Douglass additionally gives error for females's soccer as well as females's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually relayed real-time around ESPN systems. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.