.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will certainly remain in Indianapolis and be actually dipped into historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis will likewise throw the 2026 NIT semifinals and also champion as aspect of the bundled Divisions I, II and also III Male's Basketball Champions previously announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly take place Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Man College as well as the Indiana Athletics Organization once again will definitely serve as hosts for the activity.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team industry along with the first round, 2nd around as well as quarterfinals played at school websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will seed only the top 16 teams (top-four teams in each capsule) as well as position the staying 16 staffs chosen in to the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 in attendance over each nights.Furthermore, the NIT added previous guys's basketball trainer Phil Martelli and Conference United States Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Large 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest train in the background of St Joseph's males's baseball. Along with an all-time file of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to the NCAA event seven opportunities and to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff reeled off 27-straight success ending up the frequent time undefeated and also rated primary in the country prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That group after that gained 3 NCAA competition activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Association United States personnel in 2016 and also became associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with both males's and ladies's basketball, Douglass additionally delivers mistake for women's soccer and females's golf and also served as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the males's baseball team at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly join an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit President as well as Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys's basketball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted online across ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.