.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Event will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the mixed Divisions I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Butler University and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again are going to function as hosts for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into university sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each shuck) as well as place the continuing to be 16 teams chosen right into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight success completing the frequent season undefeated and ranked top in the nation before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then succeeded three NCAA tournament activities just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event USA personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks with each males's as well as females's basketball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for women's soccer and women's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be broadcast live across ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.