.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the combined Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Champions earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Valet University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will work as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd round and quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the best 16 staffs (top-four groups in each skin) and position the continuing to be 16 crews picked into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT added previous men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight success finishing the routine time unbeaten as well as ranked first in the nation just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That crew at that point succeeded three NCAA event activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event United States team in 2016 and also came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations along with each males's and girls's basketball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for girls's soccer and also women's golf and functioned as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually broadcast real-time all over ESPN systems. For more information on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.