32 participants who belong to "mid-major" conferences and were not invited to the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the 2014 National Invitation Tournament (NIT), or the 2014 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) made up the field.
The first three rounds were streamed online through the Collegeinsider.com platform powered by NeuLion.
Free registration was required to view the games.
Both semifinals and the CIT championship game, were televised on CBS Sports Network[1] In the championship game, the Murray State Racers defeated the Yale Bulldogs 65–57 in front of a crowd of 4,467 at Murray State's CFSB Center.
[2] The following teams received an invitation to the 2014 CIT: The sixth annual CIT again used the former NIT model in which match-ups in each round were re-seeded based on the results of the previous round.