2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Postseason, Bowl selections, Bowl-ineligible teams
‡ – Idaho was ineligible for postseason play due to an insufficient Academic Progress Rate. However, the Vandals would not have been eligible without the ban, as they finished with a 1-10 record.


2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Rankings, Final rankings
Unlike the BCS, the Coaches' Poll is not contractually obligated to name the CFP champion as its No. 1 team.


2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Awards and honors, Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player.


2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Coaching changes
This is restricted to coaching changes taking place on or after May 1, 2014. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2014, see 2013 NCAA Division I FBS end-of-season coaching changes.


2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Television viewers and ratings, Most watched regular season games
All times Eastern. Rankings are from the AP Poll before (10/28) and the CFP Rankings thereafter.


2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Television viewers and ratings, College Football Playoff
^Does not include viewers from ESPN Megacast which also included channels ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, and ESPN Deportes. 34.1 Million viewers for all channels combined.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings
Two human polls comprise the 2014 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), college football's governing body, the NCAA, bestows the national championship title through a 24-team tournament. The following weekly polls determine the top 25 teams at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football for the 2014 season. The Sports Network poll is voted by media members while the Coaches' Poll is determined by coaches at the FCS level.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season
The 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The season began on August 23, 2014, and concluded with the 2015 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game played on January 10, 2015, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Notable changes
Under a standard provision of NCAA rules, all FCS programs were allowed to play 12 regular-season games (not counting conference title games) in 2014. In years when the period starting with the Thursday before Labor Day and ending with the final Saturday in November contains 14 Saturdays, FCS programs may play 12 games instead of the regular 11. After this season, the next season in which 12-game seasons are allowed will be 2019.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs
Several teams changed conferences from the 2013 season, with all moves officially taking effect on July 1, 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, FCS team wins over FBS teams
(FCS rankings from the Sports Network poll; FBS rankings from the AP Poll)


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference summaries, Other conference winners
Note: Records are regular-season only, and do not include playoff games.


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Postseason, NCAA Division I playoff bracket
* Home team    WinnerAll times in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00)


2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Coaching changes, Preseason and in-season
This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2014. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2014, see 2013 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.


2014 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 2014 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship is the 34th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team from Division I in the United States. The championship was played on November 23, 2014 at the Maryland Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, the home field of the host Maryland Terrapins, in College Park, Maryland. The Connecticut Huskies won their fourth national championship, and second consecutive title, by defeating the Syracuse Orange, 1–0, in the final match.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The 2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the North Dakota State Bison and the Towson Tigers. It was played on January 4, 2014, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. The culminating game of the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, it was won by North Dakota State, 35–7.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
With sponsorship by Northwestern Mutual, the game was officially known as the NCAA FCS Championship presented by Northwestern Mutual. This was the third consecutive championship for North Dakota State.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 2013 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 24-team bracket. This was the first tournament with 24 teams in the field; it had been 20 teams for the prior three postseasons.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, North Dakota State Bison
North Dakota State finished their regular season with an 11–0 record (8–0 in conference), including a season-opening win over Kansas State of the FBS. As the first-seed in the tournament, the Bison defeated Furman, Coastal Carolina, and New Hampshire to reach the final. This was North Dakota State's third appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA title game, having won the prior two title games. This was the final game for Craig Bohl as head coach of the Bison, as he had accepted on offer to take the same role with Wyoming.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Towson Tigers
Towson finished their regular season with a 10–2 record (6–2 in conference), including a season-opening win over Connecticut of the FBS. As the seventh-seed in the tournament, the Tigers defeated Fordham, second-seed Eastern Illinois, and third-seed Eastern Washington to reach the final. This was Towson's first appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA championship game.


2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Game summary
The teams traded touchdowns in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Bison returned a blocked field goal 59 yards, then scored on the next play to go ahead, 14–7. The Tigers were held scoreless for the remainder of the game, as the Bison won by a 35–7 final score. The Bison became the second team in FCS/Division I-AA history to win three consecutive titles, joining Appalachian State (2005–2007).


2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships was the 50th NCAA Men's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 33rd NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico near the campus of the host school, the University of New Mexico. In total, thirty-two different men's and women's indoor track and field events were contested from March 14 to March 15, 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 7, 2014, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, between the East Regional Champions, seventh-seeded Connecticut, and the Midwest Regional Champions, eighth-seeded Kentucky.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
Connecticut got out to a quick start, leading by 15 points in the first half. Kentucky fought back, narrowing the gap to 35–31 at halftime. In the second half, Kentucky got within one point on several occasions, but never took the lead. Connecticut pulled away in the final minute, winning the game, 60–54.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Overview
The 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was played on April 7, 2014, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It featured the East Regional Champions, seventh-seeded Connecticut (UConn) against the Midwest Regional Champions, eighth-seeded Kentucky. Although Connecticut won the 2011 championship, and Kentucky the 2012 edition, neither team made the 2013 tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Overview
It was the first championship game since 1966 in which neither finalist was in the previous year's tournament (in 2013, Kentucky participated in the NIT, losing in the first round, while UConn was ineligible for 2013 postseason tournament play due to sanctions imposed on the program for previous years' APR violations). These two teams also met in the Final Four during Connecticut's previous national championship run in 2011, with the Huskies winning 56-55 before beating Butler in the final.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Overview
The 2014 National Championship Game featured the highest combined seeds in NCAA history, surpassing 2011's number 8 vs. number 3 match-up. It was the first ever to not feature a number 1, a number 2, or a number 3 seed.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Overview
It is the third National Championship Game not to feature a number 1 or a number 2 seed, with the other two being the 1989 National Championship Game between number 3 Michigan and number 3 Seton Hall, in which Michigan won, 80–79, in overtime, and the 2011 National Championship Game between number 3 Connecticut and Butler in which Connecticut won, 53–41.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Overview
Kentucky was considered the pre-game favorite. The referees for the game were Joe DeRosa, Verne Harris, and Doug Shows; the alternate was Mike Roberts.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Kentucky
With seven McDonald's All-Americans on their roster, the Kentucky Wildcats were ranked first in the preseason AP poll. In non-conference play, they went 10–3, losing to Michigan State, Baylor, and North Carolina. In Southeastern Conference (SEC) play, they went 12–6 and fell out of the AP top 25. They lost the finals of the SEC tournament to Florida.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Kentucky
Kentucky entered the 2014 NCAA Tournament as an at-large selection, and were given the number 8 seed in the Midwest Region. They opened the 2014 NCAA Tournament with a 56–49 victory over Kansas State. In the next round of the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky handed Wichita State their only loss of the season, beating them 78–76. In the Sweet 16, they knocked off the defending national champion, Louisville, 74–69 to advance to the Elite 8.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Kentucky
In the Elite Eight, Aaron Harrison made a three-pointer with the score tied at 72–72 with 2.3 seconds left to beat Michigan and advance to the 2014 Final Four after Nik Stauskas missed a half-court shot which would have sent the game to overtime. In the Final Four, Kentucky faced Wisconsin. With the game tied 71–71 with 16 seconds left, Andrew Harrison fouled Traevon Jackson in the act of shooting. Jackson made two out of three free throws to take a 73–71 lead. With 5.7 seconds left, Aaron Harrison made a three-pointer that put Kentucky up 74–73. Jackson missed a last-second shot and Kentucky advanced to the National Championship Game.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Kentucky
Kentucky was the third number 8 seed to participate in the National Championship Game. In 1985, Villanova beat number 1 Georgetown 66–64 in the National Championship Game. In 2011, Butler lost to number 3 Connecticut 53–41 in the National Championship Game. The Wildcats were the ninth team to appear in the title game despite being unranked in the final AP poll since the poll began in 1948.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Connecticut
The Connecticut Huskies were ranked number 18 in the preseason AP poll and did not have any McDonald's All-American selections on their roster. They started 9–0, rising to #10, but quickly dropped out of the top 25 when they got off to a slow start in the American Athletic Conference (AAC). They ended up 12–6 in conference play and lost to Louisville—who had defeated UConn by 33 points in the final regular season game for both teams—in the AAC tournament finals 71-61.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Connecticut
Connecticut entered the 2014 NCAA Tournament as an at-large selection and was given the number 7 seed in the East Region. In the second round of the tournament, Connecticut pulled away from St. Joseph's, beating them 89–81 in overtime. In the third round, Shabazz Napier scored 25 points to beat Villanova 77–65. In the Sweet 16, DeAndre Daniels scored 27 points leading UConn to an 81–76 win over Iowa State to advance to the East Regional Finals.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Connecticut
In the Elite Eight, Napier's 25 points were enough to outlast Gary Harris's 22 points and beat Michigan State 60–54 to advance to the Final Four. In the Final Four, Connecticut faced Florida, whom they had beaten 65–64 on December 2, 2013, at Gampel Pavilion on a Napier buzzer-beating shot. Florida jumped out to an early 16–4 lead in the rematch, but UConn turned things around and upset number 1 Florida, 63–53, ending Florida's 30-game winning streak.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Connecticut
DeAndre Daniels had 20 points and 10 rebounds, becoming only the fourth player to do so in a national semifinal win in the last 25 years. (Carmelo Anthony of Syracuse had 33 points and 10 rebounds in a 95–84 victory over Texas in the 2003 Final Four. Corliss Williamson did it twice for Arkansas, once in 1994 in a 91–82 win over Arizona, and once in 1995 with 21 points and 10 rebounds in a 75–68 win over North Carolina. Chris Webber of Michigan achieved the feat in 1993 in an 81–78 win over Kentucky.)


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Connecticut
Connecticut was the first number 7 seed to reach the national title game. Their 33-point loss to Louisville at end of the regular season is the largest defeat ever suffered by an eventual National Champion.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Starting lineups
Selected in an NBA Draft (number corresponds to draft round)


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Connecticut scored first, and got out to a quick start, in what USA Today described as "a physical, ugly game". Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier combined to score 12 points for an early 19–10 lead. Napier scored five more points as Connecticut jumped out to a 30–15 lead with six minutes to go in the half. Kentucky's James Young made a three pointer and then, Aaron Harrison followed up with the steal-and-dunk to cut the Connecticut lead to 30–20. The Wildcats switched to a zone on defense, which slowed down Connecticut's offensive attacks. Young and Harrison each made a three-pointer to cut the Connecticut lead to 33–26. Kentucky continued the comeback as Julius Randle and Marcus Lee each made baskets in the last minute of the first half to cut the Connecticut lead to 35–31 at the half.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Connecticut got off to a slow start in the second half, hitting just one of its first ten shots. In the early minutes, Kentucky cut the lead to one several times, but failed to take the lead. Connecticut built their lead to 48–39 with under 11 minutes to go. Then, with 10:40 to play, Young dribbled through three defenders and dunked the ball while being fouled in what was described as the best play of the game. The Wildcats scored the next six, again cutting the lead to one point.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
During that stretch Boatright turned his ankle on a routine pass but remained in the game. After Aaron Harrison missed an open three with 8:13 left, After a few possessions during which neither team scored, Napier hit a three-pointer at the 6:50 mark that appeared to end Kentucky's momentum. On Kentucky's subsequent possession Julius Randle drove to the basket for a layup to cut the lead back to two, and on the next play Huskies forward Niels Giffey responded with another three-point shot to put the Huskies back up by 5.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
At the 2:45 mark, DeAndre Daniels hit a short shot to put the Huskies up 58–52. With just under a minute to go and Kentucky down four, they elected not to foul. Near the end of the shot clock, Napier located an open Lasan Kromah who was then fouled as he attempted a short shot. After Kromah, who had the lowest free throw percentage of the Huskies on the court at 67% for the season, made both free throws, Aaron Harrison missed a three pointer and Connecticut dribbled out the clock for a 60–54 win. After the game, Kentucky coach John Calipari remarked, "We had our chances to win. We're missing shots, we're missing free throws."


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The Huskies were only tied at 2-2 and 6-6 at the beginning of the game and never trailed en route to their fourth National Title. The school is now 4–0 in National Championship Games. The American Athletic Conference, in its first year of existence, claimed its first title. Connecticut became the lowest seed to win the tournament since Villanova beat Georgetown in 1985 as an 8 seed. Coach Kevin Ollie became the first coach to win the championship in his first tournament appearance since Steve Fisher did it in 1989.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The second-year coach credited longtime UConn coach Jim Calhoun for the victory saying "Coach Calhoun, the greatest coach ever. He paved the way we just walked through it." Giffey, Napier, and Tyler Olander, who had been on UConn's 2011 championship team, became the first players in NCAA Division I men's basketball history to win national titles as freshmen and seniors.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Napier led Connecticut with 22 points, on 8 of 16 shooting, and 6 rebounds. He also had three assists. Ryan Boatright scored 14. Young was Kentucky's top scorer with 20. Randle had 10 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assist. Napier was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four for both his offense and defense (he held Aaron Harrison to 7 points). As a team Connecticut was 10 for 10 from the free throw line, while Kentucky was 13 of 24. Connecticut became the first team to make all their attempts in a title game, and finished the tournament with an 87.8% free throw rate. That surpassed St. John's 87.0% in 1969 for the best percentage in NCAA history.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The announced attendance for the game was 79,238, an NCAA record for a Tournament Final.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
After UConn's win in the men's division, the following night their women's team beat Notre Dame for a sweep of both the men's and women's Division I basketball championships. UConn also accomplished this sweep in 2004, the only other time the feat was accomplished.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
The Championship Game was broadcast in the United States by CBS. Jim Nantz was the play-by-play man with Greg Anthony and Steve Kerr providing on-court commentary. Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson Jr. were the studio hosts. Charles Barkley, Seth Davis, Grant Hill, Clark Kellogg, and Kenny Smith provided studio commentary. ESPN International owned the broadcast rights outside the United States. Dan Shulman was the play-by-play announcer for the international audience, with Dick Vitale providing commentary. The broadcast averaged 21.2 million viewers and peaked at 24.3 million viewers between 11 pm and 11:30 pm.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One. The Championship Game was streamed live for free on NCAA.com.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 18, 2014, and concluded with the UConn Huskies winning the championship game on April 7 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The East Regional semifinals and final were held in Madison Square Garden, the first time that arena has been used as an NCAA Tournament venue and the first time in 63 years that tournament games have been held in New York City.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
With No. 7 seed UConn and No. 8 seed Kentucky reaching the championship game, this tournament's final was the first ever not to include at least one 1, 2, or 3 seed. It is also only the third final not to feature a 1 or 2 seed (1989 –  #3 Michigan vs. #3 Seton Hall and 2011 –  #3 UConn vs. #8 Butler). UConn was the first 7 seed ever to reach and win the championship game. The two teams combined for the highest seed total in championship game history with 15. The previous record (11) was held by UConn and Butler in 2011.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The next day, the UConn Huskies women's team won the women's NCAA basketball tournament, only the second time that a school has won both the men's and women's Division I national basketball championships in the same year; UConn first accomplished this in 2004.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The previous season, UConn was academically ineligible for the postseason.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
For 2014 the selection committee picked a total of 68 teams that would enter the 2014 tournament, of which 32 were "automatic bids" (teams winning their conference tournaments, with the exception of the Ivy League, which does not host a post-season conference tournament; thus, its regular-season conference champion is awarded the automatic bid) while the remaining 36 were "at large" bids which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee on the Sunday preceding the First Four play-in tournament and dubbed Selection Sunday by the media and fans. The Selection Committee also seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Eight teams – the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams – played in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as "play-in games" through the 2010 tournament). The winners of those games advanced to the main draw of the tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Wichita State became the first team since UNLV in 1991 to go into the tournament undefeated. The Shockers entered the tournament 34-0. Their perfect record of 35-0 (a then NCAA men's record) was spoiled by Kentucky in the third round. Kentucky in turn set an NCAA-men's-record 38 straight wins to start a season the next year.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Kentucky became the first team to field all-freshman starters at the Final Four and championship games since the 1991–92 Michigan Wolverines under the Fab Five. The 1992 Final Four and championship appearances by Michigan were subsequently vacated.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
MEAC champion North Carolina Central University and Big West champion Cal Poly made their first NCAA Division I tournament appearances.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
For only the second time since 1973 no teams from the state of Indiana (a state noted for its basketball powerhouse programs) were in the tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
There were five overtime games in the Second Round of the tournament, the most overtime games ever in tournament history. In contrast, the previous two tournaments had two overtime games combined.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
North Dakota State's victory against Oklahoma secured the first tournament win for the state of North Dakota. Mercer, Stephen F. Austin, Albany, and Cal Poly had their first NCAA tournament wins. Cal Poly's victory over Texas Southern marked only the third time a team with a losing record won a game in the tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Notable upsets included: Mercer over Duke; Dayton over Ohio State and, later, over Syracuse; North Dakota State over Oklahoma; Stephen F. Austin over VCU; Harvard over Cincinnati (its second-consecutive upset in as many years as a #12 seed); Stanford over Kansas; Kentucky over previously unbeaten Wichita State and, later, over Michigan; and UConn over Villanova and, later, over #1 overall seed Florida.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2014 tournament:


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The city of Arlington became the 29th individual host city, and the AT&T Stadium became the 38th host venue, for the Final Four. The tournament featured three new venues in cities that had previously hosted tournament games. For the first time, games were played at the fourth Madison Square Garden, marking the first time in Manhattan since 1961 (when it was played at the previous Garden), and the first time in any borough of New York City since being played at Alumni Hall on the campus of St. John's University in Queens in 1974.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The tournament also returned to Orlando for the first time since 2004, playing for the first time at the Amway Center, the arena that replaced the former Amway Arena. And for the first time, the tournament was played at the AT&T Center, San Antonio's home to the Spurs. As of 2018, this marks the most recent time the tournament has been played at either the AT&T Stadium or the AT&T Center, with the latter scheduled to host games again in 2022. The BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee held its last tournament ever; future tournament games will be played at the Fiserv Forum.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams are automatic qualifiers for the 2014 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion receives the automatic bid).


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Tournament seeds
Florida was the overall 1 seed for the second time, the other being 2007 when they repeated as national champions. Arizona was a 1 seed for the 6th time in school history. They lost in the West regional final for the 3rd straight time as a 1 seed, all games being played in Anaheim (also in 1998 and 2003). Virginia was a 1 seed for the 4th time in school history, their first since three straight 1 seeds in 1981, 1982, and 1983.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04)


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, South Regional – Memphis, Tennessee, South Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Michael Frazier II, Florida; Devin Oliver, Dayton; Dyshawn Pierre, Dayton; Dwight Powell, Stanford


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, East Regional – New York City, New York, East Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: DeAndre Daniels, UConn; Gary Harris, Michigan State; Dustin Hogue, Iowa State; Adreian Payne, Michigan State


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, West Regional – Anaheim, California, West Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Aaron Gordon, Arizona; Traevon Jackson, Wisconsin; Nick Johnson, Arizona; Xavier Thames, San Diego State


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Midwest Regional – Indianapolis, Indiana, Midwest Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Aaron Harrison, Kentucky; Marcus Lee, Kentucky; Caris LeVert, Michigan; Nik Stauskas, Michigan


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Final four
During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region, and the champion of the second overall top seed's region plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region. Florida (placed in the South Regional) was selected as the top overall seed, and Virginia (in the East Regional) was named as the #4 overall seed.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Final four
Thus, the South champion (Florida) played the East Champion (UConn) in one semifinal game, and the West Champion (Wisconsin) faced the Midwest Champion (Kentucky) in the other semifinal game. The overall No. 1 seed Florida lost only two games during the regular season: to West Champion Wisconsin and to East Champion (and eventual National Champion) UConn; Florida also played and beat Midwest Champion Kentucky twice during the regular season and again in the conference championship game.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
The year 2014 marked the fourth year of a 14-year partnership between CBS and Turner cable networks TBS, TNT and truTV to cover the entire tournament under the NCAA March Madness banner. TBS aired the Final Four for the first year since CBS' 32 consecutive years of airing. The tournament was considered a ratings success. Tournament games averaged 10.5 million viewers, and the championship game garnered an average of 21.2 million viewers and a peak viewership of 24.3 million.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television, Commentary teams
For the first time in the history of the tournament, Turner broadcast the semifinals. TBS aired the traditional neutral broadcast (with Nantz/Anthony/Kerr/Wolfson commentator set that is also being used for CBS's national championship coverage). However, Turner also distributed team-centered broadcasts for the Final Four broadcasts on TNT and truTV. The announcers for these broadcasts are as follows:


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, International
ESPN International distributes broadcast rights to the tournament outside the United States, and will produce separate international broadcasts of the semi-final and championship games with announcers Dan Shulman (play-by-play), Dick Vitale (analyst for the final and one semi-final), and Jay Bilas (analyst for the other semi-final). For the initial rounds, they use CBS/Turner coverage with an additional host to transition between games, with whiparound coverage similar to the CBS-only era. ESPN also has exclusive digital rights to the NCAA tournament outside of North America.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, International
In Canada, the broadcasting rights are with TSN. In The Philippines it's aired on TV5.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One has exclusive national radio rights to the entire tournament. Team radio networks also hold the rights to broadcast their teams through their entire progression within the tournament and no flagship restrictions. However men's team radio networks cannot stream the games online during the NCAA tournament. WestwoodOne is the only group authorized to stream the tournament online.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams for the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams entered the tournament. Thirty one of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 36 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids
Automatic bids to the tournament were granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the Ivy League given to the regular season champion. Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Runners-up in bold face were given at-large berths.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 23–28, 2014 at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. It was the 76th NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. The tournament was hosted by Wichita State University. The Alabama Crimson Tide won their second consecutive championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Venue
This is the first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship held at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, located about an hour north of Wichita. This is the second time the tournament has been hosted by Wichita State University; the last time the Shockers hosted was in 1963.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition
Source:* Originally scheduled for four rounds (72 holes), shortened to 54 holes due to weather delays. ^ Wilson won on third hole of sudden-death playoff.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2014. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – was hosted by ECAC Hockey at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Union defeated Minnesota 7–4 to win the program's first NCAA title.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The tournament will consist of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2014 regionals:


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 23. Hockey East had five teams receive a berth in the tournament, ECAC Hockey and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and Big Ten Conference each had two teams receive a berth, and one team from Atlantic Hockey received a berth.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament bracket
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4).


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the tenth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, and ESPN3. They also streamed them online via WatchESPN.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio
Westwood One used exclusive radio rights to air both of the semifinal games and the national championship game, all together referred to as the "Frozen Four."


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse. Eighteen teams competed in the tournament, selected by winning an automatic qualifying conference tournament or as an at-large bid based upon their performance during the regular season. The Divisions I men’s lacrosse committees announced the teams in the field on 4 May 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The tournament started on May 7, 2014 with two play-in games that were played on campus sites. The winners of the games, Bryant and Air Force, advanced onto the first round of the tournament. The tournament concluded with the championship game on May 29 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Schools from ten conferences, America East, ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big East, CAA, ECAC, Ivy League, MAAC, NEC, and Patriot League, earned automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams. Air Force (ECAC), Albany (America East), Bryant (NEC), Denver (Big East), Drexel (CAA), Loyola (Patriot), Notre Dame (ACC), Penn (Ivy), Richmond (Atlantic Sun), and Siena (MAAC), were the schools that claimed automatic bids.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
In the finals, with Duke leading 8-2 in the third quarter, Notre Dame put together another comeback narrowing the margin to one with five minutes left in the game. Tewaaraton finalist Jordan Wolf closed out the title for Duke with an empty net goal with under a minute left. This was Duke's second straight title, their 3rd title in the prior five years, and their 8th straight final four appearance.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament is the 56th annual edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship tournament. The brackets for the tournament were announced on November 17, 2014, with each of the 48 participating teams gaining an invitation through either an automatic or at-large bid determined by the NCAA. The First, Second, Third, and Quarterfinal Rounds were held at college campus sites across the United States determined by seeding and record. The four team College Cup finals tournament were held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina on December 12 and 14, 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The Virginia Cavaliers won their seventh NCAA Championship title, defeating UCLA and avenging their loss to the Bruins in the championship game of the 1997 College Cup.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualified Teams
A total of 48 teams qualified into the tournament proper, either automatically, or through an at-large bid that is determined by a selection committee. Each conference that field varsity soccer teams is awarded one automatic berth into the tournament. Depending on the conference, that automatic berth was either given the champions of the regular season, or the tournament that culminates the regular season. Twenty-four teams earned automatic bids into the tournament, while 24 entered through an at-large bid.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualified Teams
Of the 23 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for the 2014 tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
Like previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 200 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 were allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 24 berths were supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
The NCAA Selection Committee also named the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 2014 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas at the 80th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2014 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
California topped the team standings, the Golden Bears' fifth men's title and third in four years.


2014 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 2014 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 93rd NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 33rd NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships held for the second consecutive year at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the campus of the University of Oregon. In total, thirty-six different men's and women's track and field events were contested from June 11 to June 14, 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 15 through June 5, 2014 as the final part of the 2014 NCAA Division I softball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams were selected out of an eligible 293 teams on May 11, 2014. 32 teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 32 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Softball Selection Committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2014 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, New to the tournament
This season the number of automatic bids increased from 31 to 32. The change occurred after the original Big East Conference split along football lines into a new non-football Big East Conference and the football-sponsoring American Athletic Conference. Also new this season was the WCC, which began sponsoring softball after the Pacific Tigers returned to the conference. The WCC replaced the Pacific Coast Softball Conference, which dissolved after all its members joined either the WCC or the WAC.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Automatic bids
The Big 12, Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids went to the regular season champion. All other conferences had the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advanced to Women's College World Series.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
9. Arizona State10. Tennessee11. Arizona12. Washington13. Baylor14. Kentucky15. Missouri16. Minnesota


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals
The Regionals took place May 15–18 with Seattle being May 15–17 and all other regionals May 16–18. The Super Regionals took place from May 22–25.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series
The Women's College World Series was held May 29 through June 4, 2014 in Oklahoma City.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series, which was streamed online at westwoodsports.com and through TuneIn. Kevin Kugler and Leah Amico provided the call for Westwood One.


2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN carried every game from the Women's College World Series across the ESPN Networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU). The ESPN Networks also carried select regional matches and every super regional match utilizing ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Outside of the ESPN Networks Regional matches, Pac-12 Network picked up all Oregon matches in the Eugene region and BTN picked up the Sunday championship games in the Minneapolis Region.


2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the men's and women's tennis tournaments played concurrently from May 16 to May 21, 2014 in Athens, Georgia on the campus of the University of Georgia. It was the 69th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship and the 33rd edition of the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship. It was the ninth time the men's and women's tournaments were held at the same venue. It consisted of a men's and women's team, singles, and doubles championships.


2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's championship
The UCLA Bruins defeated North Carolina 4–3 to win their third national title. The team was coached by Stella Sampras, the sister of Pete Sampras. Their last championship was won in 2008. Danielle Collins from the University of Virginia won the singles title, and the team of Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe from the University of Alabama won the doubles title.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. It determined the national champion for the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The game matched the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the UConn Huskies, and was played on April 8, 2014, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
UConn and Notre Dame both entered the game unbeaten, making this the first championship game to be held between two undefeated teams. Both teams came in with talented rosters; eight of the game's ten starting players were eventually drafted in a WNBA Draft. UConn overpowered Notre Dame to win the game by 21 points and break the record with their ninth NCAA Division I championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants
The championship game, described as a "dream matchup" by UConn head coach Geno Auriemma, matched the Notre Dame Fighting Irish with the UConn Huskies and was the first title game to be contested by two undefeated teams.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
Notre Dame, led by 27th-year head coach Muffet McGraw, ended the regular season with a perfect 29–0 record, including a 16–0 mark in Big East Conference games. They were the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament, where they defeated No. 9 seed Florida State, No. 4 seed NC State, and No. 2 seed Duke en route to their first ACC Tournament title and their seventh conference tournament championship in program history. They received a No. 1 seed and were placed in the eponymous Notre Dame Regional at the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, the Fighting Irish defeated No. 16 seed Robert Morris and No. 9 seed Arizona State to reach their 12th Sweet Sixteen. From there, the Irish defeated No. 5 seed Oklahoma State and No. 2 seed Baylor to reach the Final Four for the sixth time.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Notre Dame
In the Final Four, Notre Dame met No. 4 seed Maryland, champions of the Louisville Regional. A convincing win put the Fighting Irish in the national championship game for the fourth time; they entered seeking their second title.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, UConn
UConn, led by 29th-year head coach Geno Auriemma, finished the regular season with a perfect 31–0 record, including an 18–0 mark in American Athletic Conference play. They received the No. 1 seed in the AAC Tournament, where they defeated No. 8 seed Cincinnati, No. 4 seed Rutgers, and No. 2 seed Louisville to win their first AAC Tournament title and the 19th conference tournament title in program history.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, UConn
In the NCAA Tournament, UConn received the No. 1 overall seed and was placed into the Lincoln Regional, where they defeated No. 16 seed Prairie View A&M and No. 9 seed St. Joseph's to reach the Sweet Sixteen for the 22nd time. They then beat No. 12 seed BYU and No. 3 seed Texas A&M to win the regional and reach the Final Four for the 15th time in school history.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, UConn
In the Final Four, the Huskies met No. 2 seed Stanford, the champions of the Stanford Regional, whom they defeated to reach the national championship for the ninth time. The Huskies entered seeking to maintain their perfect record in national title games with their ninth championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Starting lineups
Of the ten starting players for both teams, eight were eventually drafted in a WNBA Draft. Three players - Notre Dame's Kayla McBride and UConn's Bria Hartley and Stefanie Dolson - were selected in the first round of the 2014 draft, which immediately followed the conclusion of the 2013–14 season. Notre Dame's Jewell Loyd and UConn's Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis were both first round picks in 2015, while UConn's Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson were first round picks in 2016. The last of the game's starting players to be drafted was Notre Dame's Lindsay Allen, who was a second round pick in 2017.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The game's tip-off was controlled by UConn, who scored their first points of the contest ten seconds later. Both offenses got out to a strong start, with both teams holding leads within the first five minutes of the game and combining for 16 points with 15 minutes to play in the opening half. With just over five minutes elapsed, a Stefanie Dolson layup broke an 8–8 tie to give UConn back the lead; the Huskies would hold this lead for the remainder of the game.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Dolson's layup was the second field goal in what would become a 14–0 Huskies run that gave them a 22–8 lead with eleven minutes to play. Trailing by 13 at the halfway point of the first half, the Fighting Irish were able to narrow the Huskies' lead to as few as six points over the next few minutes, but UConn was able to hold the lead steady and go into halftime with the score 45–38.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Entering the second half leading by seven, UConn jumped out to a 10–2 run, spurred by field goals from Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Bria Hartley, Breanna Stewart, and Stefanie Dolson. Trailing 40–55, Notre Dame's Kayla McBride made a two-point jumper with just over fifteen minutes to play, narrowing the deficit to thirteen, but UConn's offense did not let up, as they reapplied pressure and increased the lead to 21 points with 12 minutes to play.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The teams largely traded baskets for the next few minutes, with the margin hovering around the 20-point mark and peaking at 24 with just under four minutes to play. Notre Dame made no serious attempt to stop the clock, via fouls or any other method, and the game ended with UConn the victors, 79–58. With their victory, UConn broke the NCAA Division I record with their ninth national championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
The entire women's tournament, including the championship game, was televised in the United States by ESPN.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament was played in March and April 2014, with the Final Four played April 6–8. The Ohio Valley Conference served as the host institution. The Final Four was played at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 33 consecutive appearances. Connecticut (who made their seventh consecutive Final Four overall) and Notre Dame faced each other in the NCAA Final. Both were undefeated heading into the championship game, making it the first ever match up of two undefeated teams in the championship game. Connecticut prevailed, 79–58, to win their ninth National Championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The previous day, Connecticut also won the men's tournament. It was just the second time in NCAA history the same school had won both the men's and women's tournament; UConn first accomplished that feat in 2004.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2014 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 bids are "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible[citation needed]. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another).


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2014 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
There were 64 teams in the tournament, placed in a seeded bracket with four regions. Thirty-two teams received automatic bids – thirty-one of which were their conference tournament champions; the other was for the Ivy League regular-season champion. An additional 32 teams were given at-large bids by the selection committee on the basis of their body of work during the regular season. Unlike the Men's Tournament, there was no "First Four" round.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2014 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The subregionals were played from March 22 to March 25, 2014. Sites chosen to host first- and second-round games in 2014 were:


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2014 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The Regionals, named for the city rather than the region of geographic importance since 2005, were held from March 29 to April 1 at the following sites:


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2014 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
It was the first time that Nashville had hosted a Women's Final Four Basketball tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams earned automatic qualifiers for the 2014 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion receives the automatic bid):


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Lincoln Regional
In their first round match DePaul and Oklahoma scored a combined 204 points, setting a tournament record for most points in a non-overtime game. Oklahoma's 66 second-half points was also a record a team in a single half.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Lincoln Regional
Connecticut vs. Prairie View A&M aired nationwide on ESPN. Connecticut vs. Saint Joseph's aired nationwide on ESPNU. All other games aired with whip-a-round or regional coverage on ESPN or ESPN2.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Notre Dame Regional
Notre Dame vs. Robert Morris aired nationwide on ESPN. Notre Dame vs. Arizona State aired nationwide on ESPNews. All other games aired with whip-a-round or regional coverage on ESPN or ESPN2.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Nashville, Tennessee, National Championship
Undefeated Connecticut faced undefeated Notre Dame in the final game, the first ever to feature two undefeated teams. After a hard-fought first half, the Connecticut Huskies pulled away in the second for a 79–58 victory. National Player of the Year Breanna Stewart scored 21 points for Connecticut. Stefanie Dolson added 17 points and 16 rebounds for the victors. Kayla McBride had 21 points for the Notre Dame Irish. Connecticut won the rebound battle 54–31 and held Notre Dame to a season low in points. After the game, Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said "I thought we were playing the Miami Heat for a while [Connecticut is] just that good."


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Nashville, Tennessee, National Championship
By winning, Connecticut moved to 40–0 on the season and claimed their ninth title, surpassing Tennessee's eight titles for the most all-time. Coach Geno Auriemma said he was "flattered and grateful and all the things that come with this kind of accomplishment ... I'm more proud of the legacy that exists and what Connecticut basketball is as opposed to the number of championships." All nine of the school's titles, five with unbeaten records, have come during Auriemma's twenty seasons as head coach. Connecticut became the second school to finish the year 40–0, the other being Baylor. They have now won 46 consecutive games, the third most in NCAA history, but well short of their NCAA record of 90.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Nashville, Tennessee, National Championship
For Notre Dame, it was their third loss in the title game in the last four years. They were inhibited by the loss of senior starter Natalie Achonwa to injury in the Regional Final. The Irish  had won seven of the previous nine meeting between the two powerhouses. However, Connecticut beat them during the tournament for the second consecutive year, having eliminated them in the Final Four in 2013.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the first and second round, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN, ESPNU, or ESPNews. All other games aired regionally on ESPN or ESPN2 and streamed online via ESPN3. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the one that has the closest score. The regional semifinals were split between ESPN and ESPN2, and ESPN aired the regional finals, national semifinals, and championship match.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One had nationwide broadcast and streaming radio rights from the regional finals on through the championship. The teams participating in the Regional Finals, Final Four, and Championship were allowed to have their own local broadcasts, but were not allowed to stream their broadcast online.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the thirty-third annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's college lacrosse. The tournament began with first-round play on May 9, and concluded with the championship game played at Johnny Unitas Stadium of Towson University in Towson, Maryland, on May 25, 2014. The Maryland Terrapins were the 2014 NCAA Tournament champions.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Dates and locations
The NCAA Tournament's ten first-round games were played Friday, May 9, and eight second-round games were played Sunday, May 11. First- and second-round games were hosted by the eight ranked teams. The four quarterfinal games were played Saturday, May 17 on the home fields of the higher-seeded teams. The winners of the four quarterfinal games advanced to the two semifinal games played on May 23 and hosted by Towson University at Johnny Unitas Stadium, the home field of the Towson Tigers football and lacrosse teams. The tournament championship game was played at Johnny Unitas Stadium on May 25.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
Thirteen teams automatically qualified for the tournament by virtue of winning their respective conference championships. These teams included No. 1 seed Maryland of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and No. 4 seed Florida of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC).


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
The remaining thirteen tournament teams were chosen by the NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee on an at-large basis; the factors considered by the selection committee included: (1) the NCAA's ratings percentage index (RPI); (2) results against common opponents; (3) significant wins and losses; and (4) evaluation of the ten highest-rated teams on a team's schedule, as defined by strength of schedule and winning percentage.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
The tournament selection committee also awarded seeds to eight tournament teams, granting them the right to host first- and second-round tournament games. In addition, the top six seeds received byes in the first round. Selections were dominated by the ACC, which placed seven teams in the field, including six of the eight seeded teams and the top three teams overall.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Maryland (19-1)2. Syracuse (18-2)3. North Carolina (14-4)4. Florida (17-2)5. Northwestern (12-6)6. Virginia (10-8)7. Boston College (13-5)8. Notre Dame (9-8)


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament bracket
The 2014 NCAA Tournament bracket consisted of 26 teams, eight of whom were seeded No. 1 through No. 8.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship was the 33rd edition of the tournament. The first round of the tournament began on November 14 and concluded with the College Cup final match at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida on December 7, 2014. The Florida State Seminoles defeated the Virginia Cavaliers 1–0 in the final to win their first championship.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
Since 2001, the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, the tournament features 64 teams in a single-elimination tournament. The 64-team tournament draws from a possible field of 332 teams. Of the 64 berths, 31 are allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 33 berths are supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) that did not win their conference tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
The NCAA Selection Committee names the top sixteen seeds for the tournament for home field hosting through the quarterfinal matches while teams that do not receive a seed are placed in matches to reduce travel. The 16 seeded teams and teams from the same conference cannot play each other in the first-round or second-round.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2014 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 33rd annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by the University of Minnesota at the University Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Defending champions Georgia again topped the team standings, finishing 125.5 points ahead of Stanford. This was the Lady Bulldogs' sixth women's team title.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 4 and concluded on December 20 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The tournament field was announced on November 30.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
Penn State defeated BYU in the finals to win the school's 7th NCAA title.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Qualifying teams
The champions of the NCAA's 32 conferences qualify automatically. Twenty-two conferences hold tournaments, while the other ten award their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion. Those that do not hold tournaments are the American Athletic, Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West,  Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-12, Southeastern and West Coast Conferences. The other 32 bids are apportioned on an at-large basis. Only the top 16 teams overall are seeded.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Bracket
The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team). Regional semifinals and finals were held at pre-determined sites. In 2014, those sites were hosted by Iowa State, Louisville, Minnesota, and Washington. Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament, where teams cannot be placed into regionals that they host, the selectors in the volleyball tournament were required to place qualifying teams in their 'home' regionals, in order to reduce travel costs.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference
The columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CM, and NC respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Match, and National Champion.


2014 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Television
Select first and second-round games were broadcast on local networks (NET, Longhorn Network, OC Sports, Pac-12 Network, SEC+, and ESPN3). ESPN3 aired 7 of the 8 Regional Semifinals, with ESPNU airing one (Nebraska/Washington). ESPNU aired all the Regional Finals, and ESPN2 had the National Semifinals and Finals. Below are the ESPN announcing assignments for Volleyball Tournament games.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following human polls make up the 2014 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. The USAToday/ESPN Coaches Poll is voted on by a panel of 31 Division I baseball coaches. The Baseball America poll is voted on by staff members of the Baseball America magazine. These polls rank the top 25 teams nationally. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. Western Carolina; 32. Oklahoma; 33. San Diego; 34. Wichita State; 35. Liberty; 36. Tennessee Tech; 37. New Mexico; 38. East Carolina; 39. UC Santa Barbara; 40. Coastal Carolina.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA
The preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams. Remaining teams not listed above were: 31. Stanford; 32. Ole Miss; 33. Arizona; 34. East Carolina; 35. Georgia Tech.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began on February 14, 2014. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2014 College World Series. The College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, ended on June 25, 2014 with the final game of the best-of-three championship series between Vanderbilt and Virginia, won by Vanderbilt.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment
There were many significant conference changes that took effect prior to the season.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment
This was also the final season for several teams in their then-current leagues:


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, Eligibility investigations
The Philadelphia Phillies selected college juniors Ben Wetzler of Oregon State University in the fifth round and Jason Monda of the University of Washington in the sixth round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. Both entered into negotiations with the Phillies with the help of a financial adviser, which is against National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, but is "something that reportedly happens all the time". Both also chose to return to college for their senior year. The Phillies reported Wetzler and Monda to the NCAA, which cleared Monda and suspended Wetzler for the first 11 games, which is 20%, of the college season.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings, Conference winners and tournaments
Twenty-nine athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2014 season marked the sixty eighth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Commodores claiming their first championship with a two games to one series win over Virginia in the final.


2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, Coaching changes
This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2014 season until the day before the first day of the 2015 season.


2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
The 2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 56th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began in late August 2014 and continued into November 2014. The season culminated with the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2014. There are 205 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who won its first NCAA soccer title by defeating the Maryland 2-1 in the 2013 College Cup. The season concluded with Virginia defeating UCLA  0–0 (4–2 PKs) to win its seventh NCAA soccer title.


2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Season overview, Pre-season polls
Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season, Major upsets
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.


2014 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, NCAA tournament
The College Cup was played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina on December 12 & 14, 2014. In the semifinals, Virginia defeated UMBC 1–0 and UCLA beat Providence 3–2 in double overtime. In the finals, Virginia and UCLA played to a scoreless draw through two extra periods, and Virginia won its seventh national crown on penalty kicks, 4–2.


2014 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2014 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2014. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2014 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 3, 2014.


2014 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2014 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 29 to June 3, 2014 in Oklahoma City.


2014 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class doubles:28 – Emilee Koerner, Notre Dame Fighting Irish


2014 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
The 2014 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 33rd season of NCAA championship women's college soccer. The UCLA Bruins were the defending national champions.


2014 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division II baseball tournament decided the baseball champion of the NCAA Division II level for the 2014 season. The Screaming Eagles of the University of Southern Indiana won their second national championship as led by head coach Tracy Archuleta. The Screaming Eagles defeated the Mavericks of Colorado Mesa University in the national championship. Southern Indiana pitcher Matt Chavarria was named most outstanding player of the tournament.


2014 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results, Bracket
Hosted by University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary at USA Baseball National Training Complex


2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game
The 2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in NCAA Division II for the 2014 season. It was played at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, on December 20, 2014, with kickoff at 4:00 p.m. EST (3:00 p.m. local CST), and television coverage on ESPN2.


2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the 2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2014 Division II Playoffs, which began with teams seeded 3–6 in each super region playing in the first round, the winners of which faced teams seeded 1–2 in the second round. From there, the bracket was a sixteen-team single-elimination tournament. The game featured the No. 2 seed CSU–Pueblo and No. 2 seed Minnesota State. This was the first meeting between the teams and both teams' first championship game appearance.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 64 teams that was played to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 2013–14 basketball season.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The eight regional winners met in the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The championship game was played on March 29, 2014 and was aired nationally on CBS.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The  Central Missouri Mules defeated the West Liberty Hilltoppers, 84–77, to win their second national championship and first since the 1984 NCAA Division II Tournament.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
The champions of 22 of the 24 Division II basketball conferences qualified automatically. The list of automatic qualifying conferences changed as follows from the 2013 tournament:


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
In addition to the MEC, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) was not eligible for an automatic berth. Although the G-MAC began conference competition in 2012–13, it was not officially accepted as a Division II conference until 2013–14, meaning that it will not receive an automatic berth until the 2016 tournament.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
An additional 42 teams were selected as at-large participants by the selection committee. As in previous years, the first three rounds of the tournament were organized in regions comprising eight participants in groups of two or three conferences (two in the Atlantic and Central regions) with seeds assigned by the selection committee. The Elite Eight regional winners met ar one site for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the national tournament as the champions of their conference tournaments.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 2014 NCAA Division II men's soccer championship featured 35 schools in four unbalanced Super-Regional tournaments involving seven to ten teams each. Super-Regional games were played at campus sites.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The Division II College Cup was held at Owsley B. Frazier Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky as part of the NCAA Division II National Championships Fall Festival, hosted by Bellarmine University and the Louisville Sports Commission. The Lynn University Fighting Knights defeated the University of Charleston Golden Eagles 3–2 to win their third DII title and their second in three years.


2014 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Division II College Cup at Louisville, Kentucky.
Attendance: Semi #1 = 300; Semi #2 = 200; Final = 300


2014 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 33rd annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


2014 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Bentley defeated West Texas A&M in the championship game, 73–65, to claim the Falcons' first NCAA Division II national title.


2014 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania.


2014 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2014 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2014 season.


2014 NCAA Division II football season
The 2014 NCAA Division II football season, play of college football in the United States  organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began on September 4, 2014 and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 20, 2014 at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas. CSU–Pueblo won the national title with a 13–0 win over Minnesota State. This was CSU–Pueblo's first national title.


2014 NCAA Division II football season, Conference changes and new programs, Membership changes
Azusa Pacific, Shorter, and Southern Nazarene completed their transitions to Division II and became eligible for the postseason. McMurry chose in January 2014 to abandon their transition to Division II in favor of a return to Division III, but still completed their Lone Star Conference schedule as planned.


2014 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship Postseason involved 24 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The tournament began on November 22, 2014 and concluded on December 20, 2014 with the 2014 NCAA Division II National Football Championship game at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas.


2014 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason, Format
Six teams selected per super regional made up the field of 24 teams.


2014 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason, Format
Eight first-round games were conducted on the campus of one of the competing institutions. In addition, two teams per super regional earned first-round byes. The first-round winners advanced to face a bye team in their super regional in the second round on the campus of team that received the bye. Second-round winners met in the quarterfinals at various campus sites. Quarterfinal winners advanced to play in the semifinals on the campus of one of the competing institutions. The championship took place at Sporting Park.


2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 39th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with four regions consisting of six teams, and four consisting of eight, for a total of 56 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Wisconsin–Whitewater, who defeated Emory for the championship.


2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional
Brunner Field in the Duane R. Swanson Stadium-Moline, IL (Host: Augustana College (Illinois))


2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, West Regional
Roy Helser Field and Jim Wright Stadium-McMinnville, OR (Host: Linfield College)


2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Midwest Regional
Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium-Whitewater, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)


2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 62 teams held to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. It began on March 6, 2014, and concluded with the championship game on March 22, 2014, at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks defeated the Williams Ephs in the championship game, 75–73, to win their fourth national championship, their first since 2012. The two remaining semifinalists were the Illinois Wesleyan Titans and the Amherst Lord Jeffs.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2013–14 season, the 31st such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with St. Norbert defeating Wisconsin–Stevens Point in the championship game 3-1. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Androscoggin Bank Colisée in Lewiston, Maine.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
For the first time since its inception in 1984, no team from ECAC West made the tournament.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences. Four at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-automatic qualifiers (overall seed in parentheses).


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top four ranked teams were arranged so that were they all to reach the national semifinal the first seed would play the fourth seed and the second seed would play the third seed.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because the fifth- and sixth-ranked teams were both western schools, all four western teams were advanced to the quarterfinal round with the first western seed playing the fourth western seed and the second western seed playing the third western seed. With the remaining quarterfinal brackets made up entirely of eastern teams, they were matched according to their seedings. The first eastern team was advanced to the quarterfinal round, the second eastern seed played the seventh eastern seed, the third eastern seed played the sixth eastern seed and fourth eastern seed played the fifth eastern seed. The winner between the fourth- and fifth-seeded teams advanced to play the top eastern seed while the winner of the other two first round games met in the remaining quarterfinal match.


2014 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded team served as host.


2014 NCAA Division III football season
The 2014 NCAA Division III football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, was the most recent season of NCAA Division III football. The season began on September 4 and concluded on December 19 with title game of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. Wisconsin–Whitewater won their sixth Division III title with a 43–34 win over Mount Union at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. This was the ninth time in ten seasons that Mount Union and Wisconsin–Whitewater met in the title game.


2014 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, three conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the second year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest, which had fallen below seven members in 2013, was in the second year of the two-year grace period.


2014 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 24 Pool A conferences contained 207 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Twenty-four schools were in Pool B, enough for two bids.


2014 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2014 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
On February 20, 2014, CoSIDA and Capital One announced the 2014 Academic All-America team, with Aaron Craft headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2013–14 Capital One Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:


2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship
The 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships was a three-day event which determined the 2014 National Champion in Men's Gymnastics. The event took place from April 10 to April 12, 2014, at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, as it was hosted by the University of Michigan.


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 1
The first national qualifier session of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships took place on Thursday April 10 at 1 P.M. The following teams competed in Session 1 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 1
This was the rotation order for session 1 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 1
Here are the results for session 1 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 2
The second national qualifier session of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships took place on Thursday April 10 at 7 P.M. The following teams competed in Session 2 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 2
This was the rotation order for Session 2 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, National qualifier sessions, Session 2
Here are the results for session 1 of the 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships:


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, Team and all-around finals
The team and all-around finals took place on Friday April 11 at 7 P.M. and were televised on BTN. The top three teams from each National Qualifier session on Thursday competed in this event. Additionally, from each session, the top three all-around competitors not on one of the qualifying teams plus the top three individuals on each event not already qualified on a team or as an all-around competitor participated in this event.


2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship, Individual event finals
The individual event finals took place on Saturday April 12 at 7 P.M. The top 10 individuals on each apparatus Friday qualified for this event.


2014 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 2014 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 46th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at UC San Diego's Canyonview Aquatic Center, La Jolla, California from December 6–7, 2014. UCLA defeated USC 9–8 to win the National Championship, its ninth NCAA men's water polo title and 112th NCAA title in school history. Danny McClintick was named the NCAA Tournament MVP.


2014 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. Under the new format, six teams were invited to contest this single-elimination tournament.


2014 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2014 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals were contested at the campuses of the seeded teams on March 15, 2014. The Frozen Four was played on March 21 and 23, 2014 at TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Connecticut with Quinnipiac University as the host.


2014 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
Clarkson University defeated the University of Minnesota 5–4 in the national championship game, in the process becoming the fourth school to have won a National Collegiate championship. This championship was the first by a team not from the WCHA as well as the first by a team from the Eastern United States. It also proved to be the final game for Clarkson's co-head coach Shannon Desrosiers, who had finished her sixth season sharing head coaching duties with her husband Matt. About a month after the championship game, Shannon stepped down, leaving Matt in sole charge. Shannon cited a wish to spend more time raising the couple's young daughter and soon-to-be-born second child.


2014 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The winners of the ECAC, WCHA, and Hockey East tournaments all received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other five teams were selected at-large. The top four teams were then seeded and received home ice for the quarterfinals.


2014 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2014 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 35th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.


2014 NCAA Rifle Championships
The championships were hosted by Murray State University at the Pat Spurgin Rifle Range and CFSB Center in Murray, Kentucky.


2014 NCAA Rifle Championships
Defending champions West Virginia again won the team championship, the Mountaineers' sixteenth NCAA national title in rifle.


2014 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 2014 NCAA Skiing Championships were held in Park City, Utah and Midway, Utah on March 5–8, 2014. Utah hosted the event with alpine events at Park City Ski Resort and Nordic events taking place at Soldier Hollow in nearby Midway, UT. Utah hosted for the fourth time, all have happened in Park City, the other times being 1981, 1991 and 2000.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships
The Denver Pioneers won the NCAA Championship, the school's 22nd in the sport, more than any other school. The Pioneers scored 556 points and won by 68.5 points over Vermont, who scored 487.5.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, Regional Competitions
The NCAA skiing landscape is made up of three regions, each with one conference. The Western Region comprises the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), the Central Region of the Central Collegiate Ski Association (CCSA) and the Eastern Region of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA). Qualification for the NCAA Championships is not only attained from competition in each regional.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
The NCAA Skiing Championships are coed championship made up of eight events, two events in both alpine and Nordic racing for both men and women. Alpine events are giant slalom and slalom and Nordic events are classical and freestyle (skate). In Nordic competition, there is typically one shorter interval start race and one longer mass start race, and every two years it flips.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
In 2014, the events were: Women's Giant Slalom and Men's Giant Slalom on Wednesday, March 5; Women's 5K Classical and Men's 10K Classical interval start on Thursday, March 6; Men's and Women's Slalom and Men's 20K Freestyle and Women's 15K Freestyle mass start on Saturday, March 8. The slalom races were originally scheduled for Friday, March 7, but were postponed a day due to course conditions.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
All alpine events took place at Park City and Nordic events at Soldier Hollow.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, Individual Champions
Individual champions are the winners of each of the eight races. Ironically, for the second straight season, Denver, Colorado and Vermont both captured two individual championships with New Mexico and Utah claiming one apiece. Three of the eight skiers successfully defended their individual championships; Kristine Haugen in the women's giant slalom race; Colorado's Rune Oedegaard in the Men's 10K Classical race and Vermont's Anja Gruber in the Women's 5K Classical race. Additionally, Denver's Espen Lysdahl won the men's slalom for a second time, also winning in 2012.


2014 NCAA Skiing Championships, All-American Honors
All-American honors for skiing are administered by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association and are determined by race results from the NCAA Championships. The top five skiers in each race are awarded a first-team All-America honor while skiers 6-10 are awarded second-team honors.


2014 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 2014 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 18–20, 2014. Gymnasts from the six regional meets advanced to the NCAA Division I national team and individual competitions. The team competition was won by Florida and Oklahoma.