.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the combined Branches I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Championships earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Steward University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team field along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each vessel) as well as put the continuing to be 16 crews decided on right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT added past guys's basketball train Phil Martelli and Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Significant Five trains, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's males's basketball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer 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 staff reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the routine season unbeaten as well as placed number one in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That group then succeeded 3 NCAA tournament video games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association USA personnel in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his duties with each men's and females's baseball, Douglass additionally gives oversight for women's football as well as females's golf as well as served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice Head Of State and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's baseball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.