.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis as well as be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as part of the bundled Divisions I, II and also III Male's Basketball Championships earlier revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Organization once again will definitely work as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT is going to continue to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 teams (top-four groups in each capsule) and also place the remaining 16 staffs selected right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated past guys's basketball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Huge Five coaches, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event seven times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the frequent season undefeated as well as placed leading in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that won three NCAA competition games prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. staff in 2016 and became associate for basketball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with both guys's and girls's basketball, Douglass likewise provides error for women's soccer as well as women's golf as well as acted as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's basketball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to join an NIT board that are going to be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Branch I men's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be transmitted live all over ESPN platforms. To learn more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.