.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as aspect of the combined Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Basketball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Servant Educational Institution and also the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will definitely function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to include a 32-team field along with the first round, second around and quarterfinals played at campus sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 groups (top-four groups in each covering) and put the continuing to be 16 crews chosen in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated previous males's baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an everlasting file of 444-328 during his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes ending up the frequent period unbeaten and positioned number one in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded 3 NCAA competition video games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Conference USA workers in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his duties along with both men's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies error for females's soccer as well as ladies's golf as well as served as office chair of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the men's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will join an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I men's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually broadcast online all over ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.