.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Event are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the mixed Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Company once more are going to serve as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team industry with the first round, second round and quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each sheath) and also put the remaining 16 teams decided on in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated previous males's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph's guys's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal time unbeaten and also rated top in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then won 3 NCAA event games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with both guys's and females's baseball, Douglass additionally provides lapse for ladies's soccer and girls's golf as well as functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be transmitted online all over ESPN systems. For more details on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.