.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis and be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the consolidated Departments I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Butler College and also the Indiana Sports Firm once again will certainly act as ranges for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the top 16 crews (top-four groups in each case) and also put the continuing to be 16 teams decided on right into the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT incorporated former males's baseball instructor Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A. Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Big Five trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the past of St Joseph's males's basketball. With an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the normal time unbeaten as well as positioned first in the nation prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that gained three NCAA competition games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. workers in 2016 and ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with each guys's and ladies's baseball, Douglass likewise provides lapse for ladies's football as well as women's golf and also acted as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly join an NIT committee that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also past Branch I men's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will be transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.