.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will definitely remain in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Departments I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. House boy University as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once again will certainly function as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at university web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 groups (top-four teams in each husk) and also position the continuing to be 16 teams decided on into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous males's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Huge 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past history of St Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories completing the normal period unbeaten and ranked primary in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team then succeeded 3 NCAA competition activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Event United States team in 2016 as well as came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with each males's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass also offers error for females's soccer and also females's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Department I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually transmitted online around ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.