.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College as well as the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will definitely act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, second around as well as quarterfinals dipped into school web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the leading 16 groups (top-four staffs in each shuck) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams picked right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past men's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference U.S.A. Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Large 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the background of St Joseph's guys's basketball. With an everlasting record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the routine season undefeated and rated top in the country before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team after that won three NCAA competition games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks along with each men's and also girls's baseball, Douglass additionally provides oversight for ladies's football and also girls's golf as well as served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly participate in an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I males's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more details on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.