.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the combined Branches I, II and also III Male's Basketball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will work as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd round and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 crews (top-four teams in each vessel) as well as put the staying 16 staffs chosen into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past guys's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the regular period unbeaten and ranked number one in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded three NCAA tournament video games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event USA workers in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with both men's and ladies's baseball, Douglass also supplies oversight for ladies's football and also girls's golf and served as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Department I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be actually broadcast live around ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.