.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as component of the consolidated Branches I, II and also III Men's Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Butler University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again are going to act as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team field along with the first round, second around and quarterfinals played at university websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the leading 16 staffs (top-four staffs in each skin) as well as position the staying 16 teams selected into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past guys's baseball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference USA Partner Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past history of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an enduring file of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight success completing the regular period undefeated and ranked top in the nation before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew then succeeded 3 NCAA event video games before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference USA staff in 2016 as well as became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. In addition to his obligations with each men's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies lapse for women's soccer and ladies's golf and also functioned as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and former Division I men's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be broadcast online around ESPN systems. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.