.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will remain in Indianapolis and also be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as aspect of the mixed Branches I, II as well as III Male's Basketball Champions previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Butler College and the Indiana Sports Organization once again will certainly function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT is going to continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, second round and quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four crews in each pod) as well as put the continuing to be 16 staffs picked in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT included former males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Event United States Affiliate for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend among Big 5 coaches, Martelli is the winningest trainer in the record of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 times as well as to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the routine period unbeaten and ranked leading in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff after that succeeded three NCAA event games prior to shedding to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference United States staff in 2016 and also came to be associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. In addition to his obligations along with each guys's and also girls's baseball, Douglass likewise gives mistake for females's soccer as well as girls's golf and also worked as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the men's baseball crew at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass are going to sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and also entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I guys's basketball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT games are going to be actually relayed online throughout ESPN systems. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.