.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the bundled Departments I, II and III Guy's Basketball Champions recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Butler Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will certainly work as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team field along with the first round, second sphere and quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each sheathing) and put the continuing to be 16 teams picked into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's basketball coach Phil Martelli as well as Association USA Partner Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Huge 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine season unbeaten as well as rated primary in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then gained 3 NCAA event activities before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Event USA personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with each guys's and also females's baseball, Douglass also gives error for ladies's football and also girls's golf and acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be actually broadcast real-time all over ESPN systems. To find out more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.