.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the consolidated Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more are going to function as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd around and also quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each husk) and also place the remaining 16 crews picked right into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.In addition, the NIT added past guys's basketball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Huge 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the past of St Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the normal period unbeaten and also placed primary in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team after that won three NCAA event video games just before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event USA staff in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his responsibilities along with both guys's and also girls's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers error for women's football and also girls's golf and functioned as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State as well as Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be broadcast real-time all over ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.