.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis as well as be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the combined Departments I, II and III Guy's Basketball Championships previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward College as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four teams in each pod) as well as place the continuing to be 16 teams picked in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT included previous men's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Event U.S.A. Associate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Large Five trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew rattled 27-straight victories ending up the frequent period unbeaten and also rated primary in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew after that gained 3 NCAA event activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with both males's as well as girls's basketball, Douglass also supplies oversight for ladies's soccer and also ladies's golf and also served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of athletics as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I males's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted online all over ESPN systems. To read more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.