.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition will stay in Indianapolis and also be actually played at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second successive year.Indianapolis will definitely also throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also championship as part of the combined Departments I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions formerly revealed.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Butler University and also the Indiana Sports Enterprise once more are going to serve as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team area along with the preliminary, second round as well as quarterfinals dipped into school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four crews in each sheath) as well as put the staying 16 groups decided on into the brace geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals and also championship game were marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Also, the NIT included former men's baseball coach Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Colleague for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend amongst Large 5 trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the record of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring report of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and also to six NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight wins completing the frequent period unbeaten and also placed number one in the nation just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That crew then succeeded 3 NCAA event games prior to shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event U.S.A. staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his responsibilities with each guys's and ladies's basketball, Douglass also gives oversight for ladies's soccer and ladies's golf and served as chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely join an NIT committee that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and recreation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Department I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be actually relayed live all over ESPN systems. For more information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.