.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as component of the mixed Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution as well as the Indiana Sports Company once more will certainly work as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each covering) as well as put the continuing to be 16 staffs picked in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with greater than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated past men's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Event USA Colleague for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of St. Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities as well as to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the routine time undefeated and positioned leading in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group after that gained 3 NCAA tournament activities before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States staff in 2016 as well as came to be associate for basketball in 2021. Along with his accountabilities with both men's and girls's basketball, Douglass additionally delivers mistake for ladies's soccer as well as girls's golf and also acted as 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 baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be relayed real-time throughout ESPN systems. For more information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.