The team finished the season 20–12, 10–6 in CAA play and lost in the championship game of the 2014 CAA men's basketball tournament to Delaware, 74–75. The one-point margin is the closest that William & Mary has come to qualifying for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament; the Tribe lost all seven of its previous tournament bid-clinching games including three prior CAA championship games (1983, 2008, and 2010). Despite the team's final record, William & Mary elected not to participate in a postseason tournament, which would have been its first postseason bid since 2010.
Preseason
On October 22, 2013, William & Mary was picked to finish fifth, out of nine teams, in the Colonial Athletic Association's pre-season coaches poll. Junior guard Marcus Thornton was picked to the first all-conference team while senior forward Tim Rusthoven was selected to the second all-conference team.[1]
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Time.
Postseason
Three William & Mary players received CAA end-of-season accolades. Junior guard Marcus Thornton was named to the first all-conference team, the first Tribe player to receive this distinction since Adam Hess in 2004. He was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 10 First Team for the second time, tying him for the most NABC First Team selections in program history.[4]CollegeInsider.com named Thornton their CAA Most Valuable Player (which is not technically the same thing as the player of the year, according to CollegeInsider.com).[4] Thornton's 599 points on the season ranked fifth all-time in school history and the most by a player for the Tribe since 1959–60.[4]
Other accolades went to senior forward Tim Rusthoven, who was selected to the all-conference second team, and freshman Omar Prewitt, who was named the CAA Rookie of the Year, becoming only the second William & Mary men's player to receive this honor.
