June 11 – The NCAA releases its annual Academic Progress Rate report. Three Division I men's basketball programs will be ineligible for postseason play in 2013–14; three others are ineligible pending appeals and NCAA review of data. The penalized programs are:[1]
February 27 – Shortly after the end of Utah Valley's 66–61 home win over New Mexico State in a battle between the WAC co-leaders, NMSU guard K.C. Ross-Miller throws a basketball at Utah Valley's Holton Hunsaker (son of UVU head coach Dick Hunsaker), hitting him in the leg.[4] The incident triggers a brawl between players and fans who had stormed the court,[4] with video later showing that at least one NMSU player threw a punch, and another had to be forcibly pulled from the melee by staff.[5] The next day, the WAC suspends two NMSU players—Ross-Miller for two games and Renaldo Dixon for one—for their involvement in the brawl.[5] In addition, UVU announces that it was reviewing tapes of the incident to determine whether to take further action against its own students and fans who were involved.[5]
March 26 – South Florida, which had reached an agreement in principle with Manhattan coach Steve Masiello to fill that school's head coaching vacancy, rescinds the agreement after it discovers that Masiello lied on his résumé about graduating from the University of Kentucky. A UK spokesperson confirmed that Masiello attended for four years but did not receive a degree.[6]
April 7 – Manhattan announces that it will retain Masiello as head coach, contingent on him earning his bachelor's degree from UK. At the time, he was about 10 credit hours short of a degree, and was expected to complete the needed courses during the summer term.[7] UK announced on May 29 that Masiello had completed the required coursework and would receive his degree in August.[8]
November 19 – Wisconsin junior forward Frank Kaminsky broke the school's single-game scoring record. Kaminsky scored 43 points in a win over North Dakota. The previous record of 42 points was held by Ken Barnes and Michael Finley.[20]
January 25 – Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski records his 900th career win at the school, becoming just the second Division I men's coach to achieve 900+ wins at one university (Jim Boeheim at Syracuse was the first; both were preceded in the women's game by Pat Summitt at Tennessee).[23]
Vermont forward Brian Voelkel became the first player in NCAA Division I history to record at least 1,000 career rebounds and 600 career assists.[24]
February 1 – Syracuse defeats Duke 91–89 in overtime before a record-setting crowd of 35,446, the largest basketball crowd in the Carrier Dome's history and an all-time NCAA record for an on-campus game.
February 2 – Oakland's Travis Bader surpassed JJ Redick for the most NCAA Division I career three-point field goals made.[25] Redick's 457 made three-pointers record had stood since 2007.[25] He finished his career with 504.[26]
February 10 – SMU enters the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since the next-to-last poll of 1984–85, a span of 30 seasons.[28]
February 21 – Oakland's Travis Bader eclipsed Keydren Clark's career three-point attempts record of 1,192, which was set in 2006, almost three weeks after setting the new career three-pointers made mark.[29] He finished his career with 1,246.[26]
March 1 – In his final college game, LIU Brooklyn point guard Jason Brickman became only the fourth men's player in Division I history to collect 1,000 career assists, finishing with 1,009. He also became only the second Division I men's player to average double figures in points and assists in the same season, after Avery Johnson of Southern in 1987–88.[30]
March 8 – Doug McDermott of Creighton became just the eighth Division I men's player to surpass 3,000 career points.[31] He scored a career-high 45 points against Providence on Creighton's senior night to give him 3,011 at the time.[31] He finished his career with 3,150, the fifth-most ever.[32]
The 2013–14 season saw the largest wave of membership changes resulting from a major realignment of NCAA Division I conferences. The cycle began in 2010 with the Big Ten and the then-Pac-10 publicly announcing their intentions to expand. The fallout from these conferences' moves later affected a majority of D-I conferences. The most significant developments this season were:
With The American adding four members in 2013 and three more in 2014, all from Conference USA (C-USA), the latter league responded by adding eight members in 2013, plus one more in 2014. Four of the 2013 C-USA arrivals came from the Sun Belt Conference, which itself added three schools in 2013 and two more in 2014.
In addition, four schools began the transition up from Division II starting this season. These schools were ineligible for NCAA-sponsored postseason play until completing their D-I transitions in 2017.
The Towson Tigers also left a venue that they had occupied since 1976, the Towson Center. Unlike Nebraska, Towson is staying on campus in the new Tiger Arena.
The four Division I newcomers all used existing on-campus venues:
Shot-clock violations and who caused the ball to go out-of-bounds in the final 2:00 of regulation or overtime.
Determine if a field goal is worth two points or three in the final 4:00 of regulation or in the entire overtime period. Any other such review must wait until the next media time-out (16:00, 12:00 and 8:00 as well as the final 4:00 of the first half).
Change the block/charge rule to not permit a defender from sliding in front of an offensive player at the last second to draw a charge. The defender must be in position when the offensive player begins his upward flight with the ball.
Increasing emphasis on hand-checking or extended arms on defense.
Permit the use of video review to determine if an elbow delivered above the shoulders of an opponent warrants a flagrant-1 or -2 foul (as was previously the case), a player control foul, or no call.
Thirty-one conference seasons concluded with a single-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that won their regular-season titles were given the number one seed in their respective conference tournaments. Conference tournament winners received an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The Ivy League was the only NCAA Division I conference that did not hold a conference tournament, instead sending its regular-season champion to the NCAA tournament.
† The American Tournament winner As of March 15th, 2014 *Louisville: 29 reg. season games, 3 postseason games vacated due to sanctions against the program; Disputed Record-(31-6)(15-3) Rankings from AP poll
† 2014 Southland tournament winner Rankings from AP poll *ineligible for postseason play due to Div. I transition **ineligible for postseason play due to APR penalties
† 2014 SWAC tournament winner Rankings from AP poll *ineligible for postseason play due to APR penalties **Handed a L1 APR penalty, but eligible for postseason
After the NCAA tournament field is announced, the NCAA invited 32 teams to participate in the National Invitation Tournament. The tournament began on March 18, 2014 with all games prior to the semifinals played on campus sites. The semifinals and final were respectively held on April 1 and 3 at the traditional site of Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The sixth College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Tournament began on March 18, 2014 and will end with a best-of-three final scheduled for March 31, April 2, and April 5; the final went the full three games. This tournament featured 16 teams who were left out of the NCAA tournament and NIT.
The fifth CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament was held beginning March 17, 2014 and ending with a championship game on April 3, 2014. This tournament places an emphasis on selecting successful teams from "mid-major" conferences who were left out of the NCAA tournament and NIT. 32 teams participated in this tournament.
Capel's expiring four-year contract was not renewed after he went 53–70 in his time at Appalachian State.[109] Appalachian State hired Davidson assistant Fox.[110]
Barbee was fired after going 48–75 overall and 18–50 in the SEC in four seasons.[111] Auburn replaced him with ESPN analyst Pearl, who enjoyed major success as a head coach at Milwaukee and Tennessee before being fired in 2011 for lying to the NCAA about the recruitment of future Ohio State star Aaron Craft. When he was hired, Pearl was under a show-cause penalty that expired in August 2014.[112]
Orr was fired after posting 13–19 and 12–20 records in the last two seasons, finishing with a 101–121 record after seven seasons.[114]Wichita State assistant Jans was hired as his replacement.[115]
Montgomery announced his retirement after six seasons at Cal. In 32 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Montgomery captured 677 career victories and exits the game as the 25th-winningest head men's basketball coach with at least 10 years of experience at the Division I level in NCAA history[116]
Jarvis and Florida Atlantic mutually agreed to part ways after five of the past six seasons resulted in losing records, including a 10–19 overall mark in 2013–14[118]
Dickey resigned after four seasons and a 64–62 overall record, citing family reasons.[120] The Cougars hired Houston Rockets assistant Sampson, who returns to the college ranks after serving a five-year show-cause penalty for making impermissible cell phone calls to recruits during his previous two college jobs at Oklahoma and Indiana.[121]
Good was fired after five seasons, ending with injury-riddled 11–23 and 13–19 seasons.[125] LMU hired Mike Dunlap, a former Charlotte Bobcats head coach and former assistant with several college teams.[126]
Bower left to become general manager of the Detroit Pistons. Marist went to the Division III ranks to hire Maker, fresh off leading Williams to that division's championship game.[127]
Herrion, who had coached at Marshall for four seasons, was bought out of the final two years of his contract. Marshall, which finished the season at 11–22, lost its top seven scorers from last season, notably DeAndre Kane, who transferred to Iowa State and became an All-Big 12 first-team selection.[130] Marshall hired former NBA assistant D'Antoni, older brother of former Marshall great and then-current Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni.[131]
Tinkle left for the Oregon State job.[133] Montana hired former Cal assistant DeCuire, a former Montana player who had been publicly endorsed by retiring Cal head coach Mike Montgomery as his successor before Cuonzo Martin was hired from Tennessee.[134]
Robinson, best known outside basketball as the older brother of First LadyMichelle Obama, was fired after six seasons in which the Beavers never made either the NCAA tournament or the NIT.[138]
Braun resigned after six seasons and an overall 63–128 record at Rice. The program was plagued by player transfers in his last few seasons, most notably that of Arsalan Kazemi to Oregon after the 2011–12 season.[139] Rice hired VCU assistant Mike Rhoades.[140]
Seltzer was fired after two seasons, finishing with a 24–31 overall record. Even more significantly, Seltzer had 14 players transfer out of the program during his tenure, including five of the team's six top scorers in the just-completed season.[141] Two days after reports of the firing, top assistant Padgett was promoted.[142]
James was not retained after one season as the interim head coach. South Dakota finished 12–18.[143] South Dakota hired former Nebraska assistant Smith.[144]
Heath was fired two seasons into a six-year contract he signed after he led USF to the 2012 NCAA tournament. His success at USF did not continue, as the Bulls finished each of the last two seasons at 12–19 overall and 3–15 in league play.[145] South Florida hired Kentucky assistant Orlando Antigua.[146]
Peterson was fired at the end of his fourth season after posting a 42–82 record, ending with a last-place CAA finish this season.[151] UNCW hired Louisville assistant Keatts.[152]
After a 9–22 season, Johnson was fired at the end of his second season as head coach. Johnson was unable to keep two key players in the program—Dorian Finney-Smith transferred to Florida immediately after Johnson was elevated from assistant, and Montrezl Harrell, who had originally committed to Tech, instead went to Louisville.[153]
Bzdelik resigned after four seasons with records of 51–76 overall and 17–51 in ACC play. Like Ben Braun at Rice and Bennie Seltzer at Samford, Bzdelik was plagued by player transfers, with eight players transferring out during his tenure. Students responded by "rolling" trees in the campus quad with toilet paper, a Wake Forest tradition after big wins.[154]
After five years and an 80–86 record, Bone was fired with two years left on his contract; Washington State will pay him the remaining balance of his contract. Bone's final season saw the Cougars go 10–21 overall and 3–15 in the Pac-12 .[155]
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