.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Event will certainly remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Man College and also the Indiana Sports Corporation once more will serve as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals played at school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each hull) and put the remaining 16 crews chosen right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated past men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Large 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal season undefeated and rated first in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group then gained three NCAA tournament video games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event United States staff in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with each men's and women's basketball, Douglass additionally offers oversight for girls's football and women's golf and served as seat of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will be actually transmitted real-time across ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.