.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as component of the mixed Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Butler College and the Indiana Sports Organization once more will work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the leading 16 groups (top-four teams in each hull) and put the remaining 16 crews selected into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included former guys's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Event United States Affiliate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Significant 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past history of St. Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the frequent season undefeated as well as positioned leading in the nation before being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that gained 3 NCAA tournament activities before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Event United States staff in 2016 and became associate for baseball in 2021. Besides his tasks with each males's as well as females's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies lapse for ladies's soccer and also females's golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics as well as recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Department I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be transmitted live all over ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.