.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions recently declared.The 2025 semifinals will take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. House boy College and also the Indiana Sports Company once more will definitely act as holds for the activity.The 88th NIT will definitely continue to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals dipped into campus web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed merely the top 16 staffs (top-four groups in each husk) as well as place the remaining 16 teams decided on right into the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Also, the NIT included past males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and also Association USA Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Big Five trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. With an all-time record of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight wins finishing the regular period unbeaten and placed first in the country prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point gained 3 NCAA tournament activities prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Event USA staff in 2016 and came to be associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities along with each guys's and women's basketball, Douglass additionally supplies oversight for females's football and also ladies's golf as well as served as seat of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's basketball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that are going to be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Vice President and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as previous Division I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT activities will certainly be actually transmitted real-time throughout ESPN platforms. To find out more on the championship go to ncaa.com/NIT.