.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the combined Branches I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Champions previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Firm once more will definitely work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals dipped into school internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each shell) and place the staying 16 groups decided on right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT incorporated former males's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Association United States Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight wins completing the normal time undefeated and also positioned leading in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded three NCAA competition activities prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association USA team in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities with both men's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass also provides error for females's football as well as females's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be relayed live throughout ESPN systems. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.