.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the combined Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Valet College and the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd around and also quarterfinals played at campus web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four groups in each capsule) and position the continuing to be 16 groups chosen into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT included past men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the record of St. Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight triumphes finishing the regular time undefeated and also rated number one in the nation just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and became associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities with both males's and females's basketball, Douglass also delivers lapse for women's soccer as well as ladies's golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be actually transmitted online throughout ESPN platforms. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.