.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will certainly likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as component of the combined Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Championships formerly declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship put for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and the Indiana Sports Firm once more will act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each husk) and place the continuing to be 16 teams selected in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.Also, the NIT incorporated former men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Event United States Associate Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Huge 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head coach of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight wins ending up the regular time undefeated as well as ranked number one in the nation before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That crew at that point won three NCAA competition activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Conference USA team in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Aside from his accountabilities along with each guys's and ladies's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers oversight for females's soccer and also females's golf and also acted as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as leisure at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Department I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. For additional information on the champion visit ncaa.com/NIT.