.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the bundled Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Firm once again are going to serve as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals dipped into grounds sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the top 16 crews (top-four groups in each skin) as well as position the staying 16 teams selected in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT added previous males's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Large 5 coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the background of St. Joseph's guys's baseball. With an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the normal season unbeaten and also rated leading in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew after that gained three NCAA tournament games prior to losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. team in 2016 and became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his obligations along with each guys's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally provides oversight for females's football as well as females's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted online around ESPN systems. For additional information on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.