.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the mixed Departments I, II and III Guy's Baseball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and also the Indiana Sports Company once more are going to act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second around and quarterfinals played at grounds web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed only the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheathing) and also place the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over each nights.Additionally, the NIT included past males's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Association USA Affiliate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend among Big 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the history of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 times and also to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight success ending up the regular period unbeaten and also placed first in the country prior to being upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group then won 3 NCAA tournament video games before shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and became associate for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with each guys's as well as girls's baseball, Douglass also provides lapse for females's soccer and also women's golf and acted as seat of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics as well as relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Branch I men's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be transmitted online all over ESPN platforms. To read more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.