.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will remain in Indianapolis and also be dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will also host the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the bundled Branches I, II as well as III Guy's Baseball Championships earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to occur Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship established for Thursday, April 3. House boy University and the Indiana Sports Enterprise once again will function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team area along with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals played at grounds websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed just the leading 16 crews (top-four staffs in each sheathing) and also place the staying 16 groups decided on in to the bracket geographically where feasible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 in attendance over both nights.In addition, the NIT included previous guys's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and Conference U.S.A. Colleague Administrator for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Significant Five coaches, Martelli is actually the winningest trainer in the record of St Joseph's guys's basketball. Along with an everlasting document of 444-328 during his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA event 7 opportunities and to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight victories finishing the regular time undefeated and also ranked leading in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event video games prior to losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass signed up with the Association U.S.A. workers in 2016 and also ended up being associate for baseball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with both men's and ladies's baseball, Douglass additionally supplies lapse for ladies's soccer as well as females's golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's basketball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and also Douglass will participate in an NIT committee that will certainly be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports as well as entertainment at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as past Branch I guys's basketball coaches, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT games will certainly be broadcast online across ESPN systems. For additional information on the champion check out ncaa.com/NIT.