.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Tournament are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the combined Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Man College as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again are going to serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd around and quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each shell) as well as put the remaining 16 staffs chosen in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former men's basketball train Phil Martelli and also Association USA Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the record of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight success completing the routine period undefeated and positioned leading in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff at that point succeeded 3 NCAA tournament games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Association USA staff in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with both guys's and ladies's baseball, Douglass also offers error for girls's soccer and also ladies's golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games will be relayed live across ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.