.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the consolidated Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Championships recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Butler University and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once again are going to serve as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the leading 16 teams (top-four staffs in each hull) and also position the staying 16 crews selected into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added former males's baseball coach Phil Martelli and also Association United States Affiliate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight wins finishing the normal time undefeated as well as ranked first in the country just before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that succeeded three NCAA tournament video games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Conference USA team in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Besides his tasks with each males's as well as females's basketball, Douglass also provides lapse for females's football as well as girls's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be transmitted online across ESPN systems. To read more on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.