.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the bundled Branches I, II as well as III Men's Basketball Championships recently introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game set for Thursday, April 3. Valet Educational Institution and the Indiana Athletics Company once more will serve as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team industry with the first round, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals played at university internet sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 groups (top-four crews in each pod) and also put the staying 16 crews picked in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added former males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Conference United States Affiliate Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Huge Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest train in the past history of St Joseph's men's baseball. With an all-time report of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight victories completing the regular season undefeated and also positioned leading in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team then won three NCAA competition games just before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his obligations with each men's and girls's baseball, Douglass additionally offers mistake for girls's football as well as females's golf and functioned as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and also Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be relayed online throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.