.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as portion of the combined Branches I, II and III Guy's Basketball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Man University and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more will definitely function as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second round and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the best 16 crews (top-four teams in each covering) as well as put the staying 16 teams picked right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT incorporated previous males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Conference USA Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Major Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight victories completing the frequent season unbeaten and also positioned leading in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point gained 3 NCAA competition activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 and also came to be associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his responsibilities with both men's and girls's basketball, Douglass additionally offers oversight for ladies's football and also girls's golf and also served as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Committee for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and leisure at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually transmitted live across ESPN platforms. For more details on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.