.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and III Male's Basketball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and also the Indiana Athletics Company once more are going to function as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each covering) and put the continuing to be 16 crews picked in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT added former men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event United States Partner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Big 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the background of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success completing the normal season undefeated and also positioned top in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then gained three NCAA event activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference United States workers in 2016 and came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his responsibilities along with both guys's as well as women's baseball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for girls's soccer and women's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Department I males's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.