2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament
Season | 2013–14 | ||||
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Teams | 64 | ||||
Finals site | Don Haskins Center El Paso, Texas | ||||
Champions | Rutgers (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | UTEP (1st title game) | ||||
Winning coach | C. Vivian Stringer (1st title) | ||||
MVP | Kahleah Copper (Rutgers) | ||||
Attendance | 12,222 (championship game) | ||||
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The 2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2014 Women's NCAA tournament. The annual tournament began on March 19 and ended on April 5. All games were played on the campus sites of participating schools. The Tournament was won by the Rutgers Scarlet Knights who defeated the UTEP Miners, 56–54, in the championship game before a sellout crowd of 12,222 at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas.[1]
Participants
[edit]64 teams were selected to participate in the 2014 WNIT.[2] 32 teams received automatic berths into the tournament from being the highest-ranked team in their conference that failed to make the NCAA women's tournament. The other 32 teams earned at-large bids, by having a winning record but failing to make the NCAA Women's Tournament.[3]
Bracket
[edit]Region 1
[edit]Round 1 March 19–21 | Round 2 March 22–25 | Round 3 March 26–28 | Quarterfinals March 29–31 | ||||||||||||
Washington | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Hawaii | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Washington | 93 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 92 | ||||||||||||||
Pacific | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Washington | 62 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 55 | ||||||||||||||
Montana | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Washington State | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Montana | 57 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 60 | ||||||||||||||
San Diego | 82 | ||||||||||||||
Cal Poly | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Washington | 63 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Colorado State | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Southern Utah | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Southern Utah | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Colorado | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Colorado | 78 | ||||||||||||||
TCU | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Colorado | 60 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Saint Mary's | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Cal State Bakersfield | 68 | ||||||||||||||
St. Mary's | 64 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 76 | ||||||||||||||
UTEP | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Arkansas State | 64 |
Home teams are listed first, unless noted.
* = Overtime
Colorado, Oregon, and UTEP will host 2nd Round games.
Region 2
[edit]Round 1 March 19–21 | Round 2 March 22–25 | Round 3 March 26–28 | Quarterfinals March 29–31 | ||||||||||||
Minnesota | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Green Bay | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 77 | ||||||||||||||
SMU | 70 | ||||||||||||||
SMU | 84 | ||||||||||||||
Texas Southern | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 62 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 70 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Butler | 61 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Creighton | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Creighton | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Missouri | 51 | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Indiana State | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Marquette | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Marquette | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 48 | ||||||||||||||
Belmont | 47 | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Ball State | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 88 | ||||||||||||||
IUPUI | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Central Michigan | 66 | ||||||||||||||
IUPUI | 72 |
Home teams are listed first, unless noted.
* = Overtime
Indiana will host Marquette in Round 2.
South Dakota State will host Minnesota in Round 3.
Region 3
[edit]Round 1 March 19–21 | Round 2 March 22–25 | Round 3 March 26–28 | Quarterfinals March 29–31 | ||||||||||||
Michigan | 86 | ||||||||||||||
Stony Brook | 48 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Duquesne | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Duquesne | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Bowling Green | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Bowling Green | 72 | ||||||||||||||
High Point | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Bowling Green | 76 | ||||||||||||||
St. Bonaventure | 65 | ||||||||||||||
St. Bonaventure | 81 | ||||||||||||||
Charlotte | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Bowling Green | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 55 | ||||||||||||||
Iona | 89 | ||||||||||||||
Harvard | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Harvard | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Delaware | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 91** | ||||||||||||||
Seton Hall | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Princeton | 94 | ||||||||||||||
VCU | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Princeton | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Seton Hall | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Seton Hall | 63 | ||||||||||||||
American | 60 |
Home teams are listed first, unless noted.
* = Overtime
Rutgers and Seton Hall will host Round 2 games.
Region 4
[edit]Round 1 March 19–21 | Round 2 March 22–25 | Round 3 March 26–28 | Quarterfinals March 29–31 | ||||||||||||
Mississippi State | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Tulane | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Mississippi State | 74** | ||||||||||||||
Southern Miss | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Southern Miss | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Lamar | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Mississippi State | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Auburn | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Auburn | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Furman | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Auburn | 82 | ||||||||||||||
Old Dominion | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Old Dominion | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Navy | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Mississippi State | 58 | ||||||||||||||
South Florida | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Villanova | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Quinnipiac | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Villanova | 66 | ||||||||||||||
George Washington | 76 | ||||||||||||||
George Washington | 86 | ||||||||||||||
East Carolina | 68 | ||||||||||||||
George Washington | 59 | ||||||||||||||
South Florida | 79 | ||||||||||||||
South Florida | 56 | ||||||||||||||
North Carolina A&T | 50 | ||||||||||||||
South Florida | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Stetson | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Miami | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Stetson | 70 |
Home teams are listed first, unless noted.
* = Overtime
South Florida will host George Washington in Round 3.
Semifinals and championship game
[edit]Semifinals April 2 | Championship Game April 5 CBS Sports Network | ||||||||
UTEP | 66 | ||||||||
South Dakota State | 63 | ||||||||
UTEP | 54 | ||||||||
Rutgers | 56 | ||||||||
South Florida | 52 | ||||||||
Rutgers | 62 |
Home teams are listed first, unless noted.
* = Overtime
All-tournament team
[edit]- Kahleah Copper, Rutgers (MVP)
- Tyler Scaife, Rutgers
- Kayla Thornton, UTEP
- Kristīne Vītola, UTEP
- Courtney Williams, South Florida
- Steph Paluch, South Dakota State
Source:[4]
See also
[edit]- 2014 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
- 2014 Women's Basketball Invitational
- 2014 National Invitation Tournament
References
[edit]- ^ "WNIT Postseason Info". Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
- ^ "2014 Postseason WNIT Bracket (PDF) - WNIT Pre and Post Tournament" (PDF). womensnit.com. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
- ^ "WNIT to announce bracket March 17". WNIT. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
- ^ "Rutgers Claims WNIT Championship". womensnit.com. April 5, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2022.