.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invite Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more will certainly function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed simply the leading 16 groups (top-four groups in each shell) and position the remaining 16 groups selected into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous males's basketball train Phil Martelli and Association United States Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Significant Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of Saint Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight wins finishing the frequent period undefeated and also positioned number one in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff then gained three NCAA tournament activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association United States staff in 2016 and ended up being associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with each guys's and ladies's baseball, Douglass also delivers mistake for ladies's soccer and also females's golf as well as functioned as chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be broadcast online throughout ESPN systems. For more details on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.