.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will definitely work as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team field along with the first round, second around and quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the leading 16 teams (top-four staffs in each case) and also put the continuing to be 16 crews picked right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT included past males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Major Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight success ending up the frequent time unbeaten and also positioned top in the nation just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group then succeeded three NCAA tournament games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 and also became associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with each men's and ladies's baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for girls's soccer and girls's golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and entertainment at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be transmitted live around ESPN systems. To read more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.