.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will definitely serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each case) as well as place the continuing to be 16 crews chosen into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included previous guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Big Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an everlasting report of 444-328 during his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight success completing the normal period unbeaten and ranked number one in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained three NCAA competition video games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association USA workers in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his tasks along with both guys's and women's baseball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for ladies's soccer as well as women's golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be relayed online around ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.