2014 National Invitation Tournament

The 2014 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2014 NCAA tournament. The annual tournament started on campus sites for the first three rounds, with the Final 4 and championship game being held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The tournament began on Tuesday, March 18 and ended on Thursday, April 3. Minnesota won this tournament after being the third Big Ten team in a row to make the NIT Finals.

Participants

The following teams earned automatic berths into the 2014 NIT field having won their respective conference's regular season championship, but failing to win their conference tournament.

Conference	Team	Record	Appearance	Last bid
Belmont	Ohio Valley	24–9	2nd	2004
[2013-14 2013-14 Boston University Terriers men's basketball team\|Boston University Terriers men's basketball team\|Boston University]	Patriot	24–10	6th	2005
Davidson	Southern	20–12	6th	2009
Florida Gulf Coast	Atlantic Sun	22–12	1st	Never
Georgia State	Sun Belt	25–8	2nd	2002
Green Bay	Horizon	24–6	3rd	1992
High Point	Big South	16–14	1st	Never
Iona	MAAC	22–10	5th	1997
Louisiana Tech	C-USA	27–7	8th	2013
Robert Morris	Northeast	21–13	3rd	2013
UC Irvine	Big West	23–11	5th	2002
Utah Valley	WAC	20–11	1st	Never
Vermont	America East	22–10	3rd	2011

Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference was the league regular-season champion and lost in their conference tournament but is ineligible for the NIT due to Academic Progress Rate sanctions. No team from the SWAC received an NIT autobid.
Arizona, Cincinnati, Kansas, Michigan, Saint Louis, San Diego State and Villanova received automatic bids to the NIT, but did not accept them as they were selected as at-large teams in the 2014 NCAA tournament.

The following 19 teams were also awarded NIT berths.

Team	Conference	Record	Appearance	Last bid
Arkansas	SEC	21–11	3rd	1997
California	Pac-12	19–13	8th	2011
[2013–14 2013–14 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team\|Clemson Tigers men's basketball team\|Clemson]	ACC	20–12	15th	2007
Florida State	ACC	19–13	9th	2013
Georgetown	Big East	17–14	12th	2009
Georgia	SEC	19–13	12th	2007
[2013–14 2013–14 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\|Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\|Illinois]	Big Ten	19–14	5th	2010
Indiana State	Missouri Valley	23–10	4th	2013
LSU	SEC	19–13	7th	2012
Minnesota	Big Ten	20–13	15th	2012
Missouri	SEC	22–11	8th	2005
Saint Mary's	West Coast	22–11	3rd	2011
San Francisco	West Coast	21–11	6th	2005
SMU	American	23–9	3rd	2000
Southern Miss	C-USA	27–6	10th	2013
St. John's	Big East	20–12	30th	2013
Toledo	MAC	27–6	8th	2007
Utah	Pac-12	21–11	16th	2001
West Virginia	Big 12	17–15	16th	2007

Games are played at higher seed unless noted.

''#2 Illinois played at #7 Boston University and at #3 Clemson due to State Farm Center renovations.''

ESPN has exclusive television rights to all NIT games. They aired every single game across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Since 2011 Westwood One has held exclusive radio rights to the semifinals and championship. In 2014, John Tautges and Kelly Tripucka called these games for Westwood One.