.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as part of the consolidated Branches I, II and III Male's Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and also the Indiana Athletics Company once more will work as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team field with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 groups (top-four staffs in each case) and position the remaining 16 staffs picked into the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT incorporated previous men's baseball train Phil Martelli as well as Association U.S.A. Associate Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Huge Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the past of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an all-time report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent period undefeated as well as positioned leading in the country before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team after that succeeded three NCAA event video games just before dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 as well as ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities with both men's and also women's baseball, Douglass likewise supplies mistake for women's football as well as girls's golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's basketball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice head of state of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Department I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually broadcast online across ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.