.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the bundled Divisions I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Steward College as well as the Indiana Sports Company once again will act as holds for the celebration.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team area with the preliminary, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at grounds internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed just the best 16 teams (top-four crews in each capsule) and position the remaining 16 crews selected in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former men's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and also Event United States Affiliate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend among Major 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the background of St. Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an enduring report of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA competition 7 opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight triumphes ending up the frequent season unbeaten and also rated top in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point won three NCAA event video games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Association United States personnel in 2016 as well as came to be associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his responsibilities along with both men's and ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise gives lapse for girls's soccer and ladies's golf and acted as office chair of the NCAA Department I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the guys's basketball group at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to join an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and also leisure at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I males's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be actually broadcast live around ESPN platforms. For more information on the championship see ncaa.com/NIT.