.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and championship of the 2025 National Invite Competition are going to stay in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into historic Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to also organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as part of the combined Departments I, II and III Guy's Basketball Championships previously declared.The 2025 semifinals will happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Steward College as well as the Indiana Sports Organization once again will function as hosts for the event.The 88th NIT will continue to feature a 32-team area with the first round, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at grounds sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 groups (top-four teams in each case) and put the staying 16 staffs selected in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as national championship were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both nights.Furthermore, the NIT included former men's basketball train Phil Martelli as well as Event USA Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT board starting along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge Five trainers, Martelli is the winningest coach in the past of St. Joseph's males's baseball. With an all-time record of 444-328 throughout his 24 years as scalp trainer of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and to 6 NIT appearances. In 2003-04, Martelli's group rattled 27-straight triumphes completing the normal season unbeaten as well as ranked first in the nation prior to being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That team at that point gained three NCAA event activities before dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass signed up with the Conference U.S.A. personnel in 2016 and came to be associate commissioner for basketball in 2021. Besides his duties with each guys's and also females's baseball, Douglass also delivers lapse for women's football as well as females's golf and acted as seat of the NCAA Branch I Female's Soccer Board for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and also Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT committee that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice head of state of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters and Bob Williams.All NIT activities are going to be actually transmitted live across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship browse through ncaa.com/NIT.