.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals as well as champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis and also be actually dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly also host the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as component of the combined Departments I, II and III Men's Basketball Championships earlier introduced.The 2025 semifinals will certainly happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Manservant University and also the Indiana Athletics Company once again are going to function as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will remain to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, second around and quarterfinals played at school internet sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT is going to seed only the leading 16 crews (top-four teams in each shuck) and position the remaining 16 crews decided on in to the bracket geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually marketed out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both nights.Additionally, the NIT added past males's baseball train Phil Martelli and Conference United States Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Huge 5 trainers, Martelli is actually the winningest train in the history of Saint Joseph's males's baseball. With an all-time document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as head train of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team reeled off 27-straight wins ending up the routine period undefeated and also placed number one in the nation prior to being outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Event quarterfinals. That team at that point succeeded 3 NCAA event activities prior to dropping to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional ultimate.Douglass participated in the Association United States staff in 2016 as well as ended up being associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Along with his obligations along with both guys's as well as ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies lapse for women's soccer and also females's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Football Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year captain of the males's basketball group at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will be actually chaired by Tim Duncan, bad habit head of state of athletics and relaxation at New Orleans. Other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Board are actually Morgan State Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and past Division I males's basketball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually relayed online around ESPN platforms. To find out more on the champion browse through ncaa.com/NIT.