.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly stay in Indianapolis as well as be played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the bundled Branches I, II and also III Male's Basketball Championships recently revealed.The 2025 semifinals will occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Head servant College and the Indiana Athletics Firm once more will definitely act as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, second round and quarterfinals played at school web sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the leading 16 teams (top-four groups in each sheathing) and position the staying 16 crews selected in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated previous guys's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference USA Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Huge Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's guys's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight triumphes completing the normal season unbeaten and also ranked leading in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That staff at that point won 3 NCAA event games before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass signed up with the Event U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and also became associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Along with his tasks along with each men's as well as girls's baseball, Douglass likewise delivers oversight for females's soccer and females's golf and also functioned as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the guys's baseball team at Alcorn Condition.Martelli as well as Douglass are going to join an NIT committee that will be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan Condition Vice President and also Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will certainly be transmitted real-time around ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.