2014 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

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2014 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
Season 2013–14
Teams32
Finals site CFSB Center
Murray, Kentucky
Champions Murray State (1st title)
Runner-up Yale (1st title game)
Semifinalists
Winning coach Steve Prohm (1st title)
MVP Cameron Payne (Murray State)
CIT tournaments
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The 2014 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a postseason single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams. The first round started March 17, 2014. The semifinals were played on April 1, with the championship game played on April 3, 2014.

Contents

32 participants who belong to "mid-major" conferences and were not invited to the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the 2014 National Invitation Tournament (NIT), or the 2014 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) made up the field.

The first three rounds were streamed online through the Collegeinsider.com platform powered by NeuLion. Free registration was required to view the games. Both semifinals and the CIT championship game, were televised on CBS Sports Network [1]

In the championship game, the Murray State Racers defeated the Yale Bulldogs 65–57 in front of a crowd of 4,467 at Murray State's CFSB Center. [2]

Participating teams

The following teams received an invitation to the 2014 CIT:

SchoolConferenceOverall
record		Conference
record
Akron Mid-American 21–1212–6
Alabama State SWAC 19–1212–6
Brown [3] Ivy League 15–137–7
Canisius [4] MAAC 21–1214–6
Chattanooga [5] Southern 18–1412–4
Cleveland State Horizon 21–1112–4
Columbia [6] Ivy League 19–128–6
East Carolina [7] Conference USA 17–166–12
East Tennessee State [8] Atlantic Sun 18–1510–8
Eastern Michigan Mid-American 21–1410–8
Grand Canyon [9] WAC 15–1410–6
IPFW [10] Summit 24–1010–4
Holy Cross [11] Patriot 19–1312–6
Missouri State [12] Missouri Valley 20–129–9
Murray State [13] Ohio Valley 18–1113–3
Nebraska–Omaha [14] Summit 16–145–9
Norfolk State MEAC 19–1411–5
North Dakota Big Sky 17–1612–8
Northern Colorado [15] Big Sky 18–1311–9
Ohio Mid-American 23–1111–7
Pacific [16] West Coast 15–156–12
Portland State Big Sky 17–1411–9
Quinnipiac MAAC 20–1114–6
Sam Houston State Southland 23–1013–5
San Diego [17] West Coast 16–167–11
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Southland 17–1514–4
Towson Colonial 23–1013–3
USC Upstate [18] Atlantic Sun 19–1411–7
Wright State Horizon 20–1410–6
Valparaiso [19] Horizon 18–159–7
VMI [20] Big South 19–1211–5
Yale [21] Ivy League 15–139–5

Format

The sixth annual CIT again used the former NIT model in which match-ups in each round were re-seeded based on the results of the previous round.

Schedule

GameDateTimeMatchupTelevision
First round
1March 177:00 pmHoly Cross at Brown
2March 187:00 pmVMI at Canisius
37:00 pmWright State at East Carolina
47:00 pmNorfolk State at Eastern Michigan
57:00 pmChattanooga at East Tennessee State
68:00 pmAlabama State at Sam Houston State
78:05 pmColumbia at Valparaiso
810:00 pmPortland State at San Diego
9March 197:00 pmQuinnipiac at Yale
107:00 pmTowson at USC Upstate
117:00 pmCleveland State at Ohio
127:00 pmAkron at IPFW
138:00 pmNorth Dakota at Nebraska–Omaha
148:05 pmMurray State at Missouri State
159:00 pmTexas A&M–Corpus Christi at Northern Colorado
1610:00 pmPacific at Grand Canyon
Second round
17March 217:00 pmTowson at East Tennessee State
18March 221:00 pmIPFW at VMI
192:00 pmWright State at Ohio
207:00 pmYale at Holy Cross
217:00 pmEastern Michigan at Columbia
227:00 pmSan Diego at Sam Houston State
239:00 pmTexas A&M–Corpus Christi at Pacific
24March 248:00 pmNebraska–Omaha at Murray State
Quarterfinals
25March 267:00 pmYale at Columbia
267:00 pmVMI at Ohio
2710:00 pmSan Diego at Pacific
28March 278:00 pmTowson at Murray State
Semifinals
29April 17:00 pmYale at VMICBSSN
309:00 pmPacific at Murray StateCBSSN
Championship
31April 37:00 pmYale at Murray StateCBSSN
All tipoff times in Eastern Time Zone. Winning team in bold.

Source: www.collegeinsider.com

Bracket

Bracket is for visual purposes only. The CIT does not have a set bracket.

First round
March 17–19 		Second round
March 21–24 		Quarterfinals
March 26–27 		Semifinals
April 1 		Championship
April 3
               
Quinnipiac 68
Yale69
Yale71
Holy Cross 66
Holy Cross68
Brown 65
Yale72
Columbia 69
Norfolk State 54
Eastern Michigan58
Eastern Michigan 56
Columbia69
Columbia58
Valparaiso 56
Yale75
VMI 62
Akron 91
IPFW97
IPFW 95
VMI106
VMI111
Canisius 100
VMI92
Ohio 90
Wright State73
East Carolina 59
Wright State 54
Ohio56
Cleveland State 62
Ohio64
Yale 57
Murray State65
Portland State 65
San Diego87
San Diego77
Sam Houston State 72
Alabama State 49
Sam Houston State71
San Diego 60
Pacific75
Texas A&M–CC82
Northern Colorado 71
Texas A&M–CC 60
Pacific89
Pacific69
Grand Canyon 67
Pacific 75
Murray State98
Towson63
USC Upstate 60
Towson83
East Tennessee State 77
Chattanooga 66
East Tennessee State79
Towson 73
Murray State85
North Dakota 75
Nebraska–Omaha91
Nebraska–Omaha 62
Murray State86
Murray State66
Missouri State 63

Home teams are listed second.

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