.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Event will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as portion of the combined Departments I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Butler College as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will definitely function as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team field with the first round, second around and also quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each husk) and also position the staying 16 teams picked right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated previous men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A. Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St. Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the normal time undefeated and also placed first in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff then succeeded three NCAA event games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference USA staff in 2016 as well as became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with each guys's and also girls's baseball, Douglass also provides lapse for girls's soccer as well as females's golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will definitely be broadcast online across ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.