.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also championship of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and also be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as portion of the mixed Divisions I, II and also III Guy's Baseball Championships formerly introduced.The 2025 semifinals will definitely take place Tuesday, April 1, along with the national championship placed for Thursday, April 3. Steward Educational Institution and also the Indiana Sports Firm once again are going to work as ranges for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly continue to include a 32-team industry along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and also quarterfinals dipped into university web sites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed only the top 16 teams (top-four crews in each sheathing) and also put the staying 16 teams decided on in to the bracket geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with much more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Furthermore, the NIT added previous males's basketball instructor Phil Martelli and Event U.S.A. Colleague Commissioner for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning along with the 2024-25 period.A legend one of Significant 5 instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the record of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an enduring record of 444-328 during his 24 years as scalp coach of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament seven times and also to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's staff rattled 27-straight success ending up the frequent period unbeaten as well as positioned primary in the country prior to being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That staff after that gained 3 NCAA competition activities just before losing to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass participated in the Event USA team in 2016 and became associate commissioner for baseball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities along with each guys's and females's basketball, Douglass additionally offers lapse for ladies's soccer and also girls's golf and also functioned as office chair of the NCAA Department I Female's Soccer Board for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will definitely participate in an NIT board that will certainly be actually chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also recreation at New Orleans. Various other participants of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan Condition Bad Habit Head Of State as well as Director of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and previous Division I guys's baseball trainers, Bob McKillop, Gary Waters as well as Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be actually relayed live throughout ESPN systems. To find out more on the champion see ncaa.com/NIT.