2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team

2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball
2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball
NCAA tournament, Sweet Sixteen
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 8
AP	No. 8
Record	27–7 (12–4 ACC)
Head coach	Jeff Walz (8th season);
Assistant coaches	Stephanie Norman; Sam Purcell; Samantha Williams;
Home arena	KFC Yum! Center
	Seasons ← 2013–14 2015–16 →

2014–15 ACC women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 2 Notre Dame^†	15	–	1	.938	36	–	3	.923
No. 7 Florida State	14	–	2	.875	32	–	5	.865
No. 8 Louisville	12	–	4	.750	27	–	7	.794
No. 16 Duke	11	–	5	.688	23	–	11	.676
Syracuse	11	–	5	.688	22	–	10	.688
No. 15 North Carolina	10	–	6	.625	26	–	9	.743
Pittsburgh	9	–	7	.563	20	–	12	.625
Miami (FL)	8	–	8	.500	20	–	13	.606
Virginia	7	–	9	.438	17	–	14	.548
NC State	7	–	9	.438	18	–	15	.545
Georgia Tech	7	–	9	.438	19	–	15	.559
Boston College	5	–	11	.313	13	–	17	.433
Wake Forest	2	–	14	.125	13	–	20	.394
Virginia Tech	1	–	15	.063	12	–	20	.375
Clemson	1	–	15	.063	9	–	21	.300


† 2015 ACC tournament winner As of 7 April 2015 Rankings from AP poll

The 2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cardinals, led by eighth-year head coach Jeff Walz, played their home games at the KFC Yum! Center and were in their first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[1] They finished the season 27–7, 12–4 in ACC play to finish in third place. They advanced to the semifinals of the ACC women's tournament, where they lost to Florida State. They received at-large bid of the NCAA women's tournament, where they defeated BYU in the first round, South Florida in the second round before getting upset by Dayton in the sweet sixteen.

Roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Name	Height	Year	Previous school	Hometown
F	00	Sara Hammond	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	Sr	Rockcastle County	Mount Vernon, Kentucky
F	2	Myisha Hines-Allen	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	Fr	Montclair	Montclair, New Jersey
C	3	Sheronne Vails	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	RS Sr	Arundel	Odenton, Maryland
F	4	Mariya Moore	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	Fr	Salesian	Hercules, California
G	11	Arica Carter	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Fr	Long Beach Poly	Long Beach, California
F	12	Shawnta Dyer	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	RS Sr	Marion Harding	Marion, Ohio
F	13	Cortnee Walton	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	Jr	St. Mary's	Surprise, Arizona
C	15	Megan Deines	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Jr	Glendale	Springfield, Missouri
G	21	Bria Smith	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Sr	Christ the King	Massapequa, New York
G	22	Jude Schimmel	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Sr	Franklin (Portland, OR)	Mission, Oregon
G	24	Ariana Freeman	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Fr	Paul VI Catholic	Manassas, Virginia
F	31	Sydney Brackemyre	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Fr	Clinton Massie School	Wilmington, Ohio
F	32	Emmonnie Henderson	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	So	Edwardsville	Edwardsville, Illinois

Head coach

Jeff Walz (Northern Kentucky)

Assistant coach(es)

Stephanie Norman (Arizona State)
Sam Purcell (Auburn)
Samantha Williams (Auburn)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible
(W) Walk-on

Injured
Current redshirt

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Media

Once again select Cardinals games will be broadcast on WHAS. This year the Cardinals sleight of games on CBS Sports Network will be replaced by a set of games on the ACC RSN. Additional ACC games will air on ESPN3.

All Cardinals basketball games will air on Learfield Sports on WKRD 790 AM or WVKY 101.7 FM, depending on conflicts with Louisville and Kentucky football and men's basketball games.

Schedule

Date time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (attendance) city, state
Regular Season
11/14/2014* 5:00 pm	No. 12	at IUPUI	W 89–69	1–0	Fairgrounds Coliseum (3,159) Indianapolis, IN
11/16/2014* 7:00 pm	No. 12	Tennessee–Martin	W 77–43	2–0	KFC Yum! Center (7,892) Louisville, KY
11/20/2014* 7:00 pm	No. 12	Belmont	W 95–35	3–0	KFC Yum! Center (7,404) Louisville, KY
11/23/2014* 2:00 pm	No. 12	Ball State	W 69–56	4–0	KFC Yum! Center (8,081) Louisville, KY
11/25/2014* 7:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 12	WKU	W 89–67	5–0	KFC Yum! Center (8,463) Louisville, KY
11/28/2014* 7:00 pm	No. 12	Lafayette	W 102–61	6–0	KFC Yum! Center (7,923) Louisville, KY
11/30/2014* 2:35 pm, ESPN3	No. 12	at Valparaiso	W 86–59	7–0	Athletics–Recreation Center (567) Valparaiso, IN
12/04/2014* 7:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 7	No. 22 Iowa ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge	W 86–52	8–0	KFC Yum! Center (7,854) Louisville, KY
12/07/2014* 2:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 7	No. 13 Kentucky The Battle for the Bluegrass	L 68–77	8–1	KFC Yum! Center (14,862) Louisville, KY
12/15/2014* 7:00 pm	No. 10	Old Dominion	W 100–46	9–1	KFC Yum! Center (7,726) Louisville, KY
12/18/2014* 10:00 pm	No. 10	at Grand Canyon	W 65–51	10–1	GCU Arena (2,049) Phoenix, AZ
12/21/2014* 5:00 pm, P12N	No. 10	at No. 24 California	W 70–57	11–1	Haas Pavilion (8,339) Berkeley, CA
12/29/2014* 7:00 pm	No. 7	Evansville	W 73–51	12–1	KFC Yum! Center (7,909) Louisville, KY
01/02/2015 7:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 7	Georgia Tech	W 75–48	13–1 (1–0)	KFC Yum! Center (9,049) Louisville, KY
01/04/2015 2:00 pm	No. 7	at Pittsburgh	W 63–57	14–1 (2–0)	Peterson Events Center (1,811) Pittsburgh, PA
01/11/2015 2:00 pm	No. 6	at Wake Forest	W 79–68	15–1 (3–0)	LJVM Coliseum (719) Winston-Salem, NC
01/14/2015 7:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 4	NC State	W 65–58	16–1 (4–0)	KFC Yum! Center (7,736) Louisville, KY
01/18/2015 3:00 pm, RSN	No. 4	Virginia	W 67–55	17–1 (5–0)	KFC Yum! Center (11,322) Louisville, KY
01/22/2015 7:00 pm, ESPN3	No. 4	at No. 17 Florida State	L 63–68	17–2 (5–1)	Donald L. Tucker Civic Center (2,847) Tallahassee, FL
01/25/2015 5:00 pm, RSN	No. 4	Miami (FL)	W 68–55	18–2 (6–1)	KFC Yum! Center (9,887) Louisville, KY
01/29/2015 7:00 pm	No. 8	No. 23 Syracuse	W 78–58	19–2 (7–1)	KFC Yum! Center (8,387) Louisville, KY
02/02/2015 7:00 pm, ESPN2	No. 8	at No. 15 Duke	L 58–66	19–3 (7–2)	Cameron Indoor Stadium (5,790) Durham, NC
02/08/2015 2:00 pm	No. 8	Pittsburgh	W 48–35	20–3 (8–2)	KFC Yum! Center (13,656) Louisville, KY
02/12/2015 7:00 pm	No. 9	at Clemson	W 81–49	21–3 (9–2)	Littlejohn Coliseum (1,394) Clemson, SC
02/15/2015 1:00 pm, ESPN2	No. 9	No. 17 North Carolina	W 75–66	22–3 (10–2)	KFC Yum! Center (13,115) Louisville, KY
02/19/2015 7:00 pm	No. 8	at Virginia Tech	W 69–49	23–3 (11–2)	Cassell Coliseum (1,573) Blacksburg, VA
02/23/2015 7:00 pm, ESPN2	No. 8	at No. 4 Notre Dame	L 52–68	23–4 (11–3)	Edmund P. Joyce Center (8,911) South Bend, IN
02/26/2015 7:00 pm	No. 8	Boston College	W 77–60	24–4 (12–3)	KFC Yum! Center (10,488) Louisville, KY
03/01/2015 1:00 pm, RSN	No. 8	at Virginia	L 59–75	24–5 (12–4)	John Paul Jones Arena (3,744) Charlottesville, VA
2015 ACC Tournament
03/06/2015 8:00 pm, RSN	No. 10	vs. No. 16 North Carolina Quarterfinals	W 77–75 ^OT	25–5	Greensboro Coliseum (5,848) Greensboro, NC
03/07/2015 2:30 pm, ESPNU	No. 10	vs. No. 7 Florida State Semifinals	L 51–66	25–6	Greensboro Coliseum (7,108) Greensboro, NC
NCAA Women's Tournament
03/21/2015* 4:00 pm, ESPN2	No. 8	vs. BYU First Round	W 86–53	26–6	USF Sun Dome (5,560) Tampa, FL
03/23/2015* 9:00 pm, ESPN2	No. 8	at No. 25 South Florida Second Round	W 60–52	27–6	USF Sun Dome (5,014) Tampa, FL
03/28/2015* 2:30 pm, ESPN	No. 8	vs. Dayton Sweet Sixteen	L 66–82	27–7	Times Union Center (8,259) Albany, NY
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern.

Source^[3]

Rankings

2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings

Regular Season Polls
Poll	Pre- season	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Week 18	Final
AP	12	12	12	7	10	10	7	7	6	4т	4	8	8	9	8	8	10	8	8
Coaches	11	10	11	7	10	10	7	6	7	4	4	8	9	8	7	9	10	8	8

**Legend**
		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		No Change
(RV)		Received Votes
(NR)		Not Ranked

References

^ "ACC to add Louisville in 2014". ESPN. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
^ "Official Women's Basketball Roster - Louisville Cardinals Official Athletic Site". www.gocards.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2015.
^ "2014-15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball schedule". Louisville Cardinals. Retrieved July 3, 2014.

[1] "ACC to add Louisville in 2014". ESPN. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

[2] "Official Women's Basketball Roster - Louisville Cardinals Official Athletic Site". www.gocards.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2015.

[3] "2014-15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball schedule". Louisville Cardinals. Retrieved July 3, 2014.

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v t e Louisville Cardinals women's basketball
Venues	Freedom Hall (1975–2010) KFC Yum! Center (2010–present)
Rivalries	Kentucky
Culture & lore	Cardinal Bird
People	Head coaches
Seasons	1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
NCAA Final Four appearance in italics

Roster

Media

Schedule

Rankings

See also

References