.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to continue to be in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as championship as aspect of the combined Departments I, II and III Men's Basketball Champions previously introduced.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Manservant College and the Indiana Sports Company once again will definitely work as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to feature a 32-team industry with the preliminary, 2nd sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into school sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 staffs (top-four teams in each capsule) as well as put the staying 16 teams chosen into the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with much more than 9,000 in attendance over both evenings.In addition, the NIT included previous males's baseball trainer Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend one of Significant 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the past of St. Joseph's guys's basketball. With an everlasting document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories ending up the frequent time undefeated and also positioned first in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff then gained three NCAA tournament games just before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his tasks along with both men's and also girls's baseball, Douglass also supplies error for girls's football and females's golf and functioned as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will definitely join an NIT board that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit president of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Division I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be relayed real-time around ESPN platforms. To read more on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.