The 2014 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was held on March 12–15, 2014 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With San Jose State and Utah State added to the MWC, the MWC had an 11-team tournament for 2014. The top five seeds got a first round bye. For the second year in a row, the first-round games were online, quarterfinals and semifinals games were on the CBS Sports Network and the championship game was televised on CBS. The tournament champion received the Mountain West's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA tournament.
Seeds Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. The top five seeds received first round byes.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker1San Diego State16–227–42New Mexico15–326–63Nevada10–815–172–0 vs. UNLV4UNLV10–820–130–2 vs. Nevada5Wyoming9–918–132–2 vs Boise/Fresno; 1–0 vs. SDSU6Boise State9–921–132–2 vs Wyoming/Fresno; 0–2 vs SDSU; 1–1 vs. UNM7Fresno State9–917–162–2 vs Boise/Wyoming; 0–2 vs. SDSU; 0–1 vs. UNM8Utah State7–1118–142–0 vs Colorado State9Colorado State7–1116–170–2 vs Utah State10Air Force6–1212–1911San Jose State1–177–25
Schedule GameTime*Matchup#Television First round – Wednesday, March 1212:00 pm#8 Utah State vs. #9 Colorado StateMWN24:30 pm#7 Fresno State vs. #10 Air ForceMWN37:00 pm#6 Boise State vs. #11 San Jose StateMWN Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 134Noon#1 San Diego State vs. #8 Utah StateCBSSN52:30 pm#4 UNLV vs. #5 WyomingCBSSN66:00 pm#2 New Mexico vs. #7 Fresno StateCBSSN78:30 pm#3 Nevada vs. #6 Boise StateCBSSN Semifinals – Friday, March 1486:00 pm#1 San Diego State vs. #4 UNLVCBSSN98:30 pm#2 New Mexico vs. #6 Boise StateCBSSN Championship – Saturday, March 15103:00 pm#1 San Diego State vs. #2 New MexicoCBS *Game times in PT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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