.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the mixed Departments I, II and also III Men's Basketball Champions recently announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Company once again will definitely function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into campus sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the best 16 crews (top-four staffs in each vessel) and put the remaining 16 staffs picked in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated past guys's baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Large 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past history of St. Joseph's men's baseball. Along with an enduring record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to six NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's crew reeled off 27-straight triumphes finishing the frequent time undefeated and placed top in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that succeeded 3 NCAA tournament activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and came to be associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his tasks with each males's as well as females's baseball, Douglass likewise offers lapse for women's football and ladies's golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's baseball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Branch I males's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT activities will definitely be actually relayed real-time across ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.