.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as portion of the combined Branches I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Steward College and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once again will certainly serve as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team industry along with the first round, second sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 crews (top-four teams in each pod) and also put the remaining 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added past males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the history of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight wins completing the normal period undefeated and positioned first in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that succeeded three NCAA tournament video games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass joined the Association U.S.A. team in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with each guys's and females's baseball, Douglass also offers oversight for females's soccer and ladies's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice Head Of State and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed online all over ESPN systems. To learn more on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.