.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition are going to remain in Indianapolis as well as be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd successive year.Indianapolis is going to also hold the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as aspect of the bundled Departments I, II and III Male's Baseball Champions earlier announced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game put for Thursday, April 3. Butler College as well as the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once again will definitely act as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will definitely remain to feature a 32-team area along with the preliminary, 2nd around and quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed simply the top 16 groups (top-four groups in each shuck) as well as put the staying 16 staffs selected right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 in attendance over each evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former guys's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Conference U.S.A. Associate for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Large 5 trains, Martelli is the winningest train in the record of Saint Joseph's men's basketball. Along with an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and also to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight success ending up the routine time undefeated and positioned leading in the country just before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point won 3 NCAA tournament activities before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event United States team in 2016 and also ended up being associate for basketball in 2021. In addition to his accountabilities along with both males's and also women's basketball, Douglass likewise offers mistake for women's soccer as well as women's golf and also functioned as office chair of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass are going to participate in an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of sports and entertainment at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also previous Branch I males's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be relayed live across ESPN platforms. For additional information on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.