.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the mixed Departments I, II and III Men's Basketball Champions formerly announced.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College and also the Indiana Athletics Firm once more will definitely work as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each capsule) and also place the continuing to be 16 crews selected right into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT included previous men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and Conference USA Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of St. Joseph's males's basketball. With an everlasting 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 tournament seven opportunities and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight success ending up the normal period undefeated and also placed primary in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team after that won 3 NCAA tournament games before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. workers in 2016 and came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his responsibilities along with both men's and women's basketball, Douglass also supplies oversight for girls's soccer and also girls's golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually broadcast online throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.