.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the mixed Departments I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions previously revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman College and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more are going to function as ranges for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the top 16 groups (top-four crews in each sheathing) as well as position the continuing to be 16 teams chosen in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT added previous males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Association USA Partner Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Major 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories completing the routine season undefeated as well as ranked top in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team then won three NCAA tournament activities before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Conference United States personnel in 2016 and also came to be associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his duties along with each guys's and also females's baseball, Douglass also gives lapse for girls's soccer and girls's golf and functioned as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will join an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually relayed live throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.