.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the bundled Departments I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Champions formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Head servant University as well as the Indiana Sports Corporation once again will definitely act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd round and also quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four crews in each case) as well as position the staying 16 crews picked into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Also, the NIT added past males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Conference United States Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Significant Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the past of St Joseph's guys's baseball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight victories finishing the frequent period undefeated and positioned primary in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team after that won 3 NCAA tournament games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass joined the Event United States staff in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with each guys's and also girls's baseball, Douglass also supplies error for girls's soccer and women's golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely sign up with an NIT board that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Division I males's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will be transmitted live around ESPN systems. To read more on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.