.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Man University and also the Indiana Athletics Corporation once more are going to work as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd around and also quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed just the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheath) and also place the remaining 16 crews decided on into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.In addition, the NIT added previous males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event USA Partner Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest instructor in the record of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight success ending up the routine period undefeated and also rated leading in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point won three NCAA tournament games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Conference U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as became associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with each guys's and also ladies's baseball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for females's soccer and ladies's golf and acted as chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually broadcast real-time across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.