.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the mixed Departments I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will act as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals played at university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 crews (top-four crews in each covering) as well as put the remaining 16 teams chosen in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past men's basketball coach Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Big 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the background of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal season unbeaten and placed top in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that succeeded 3 NCAA tournament games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event United States personnel in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both men's and females's basketball, Douglass likewise gives lapse for females's soccer and also women's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I men's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.