2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team

2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball
NCAA tournament, Sweet Sixteen
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 8
APNo. 8
Record27–7 (12–4 ACC)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
Home arenaKFC Yum! Center
Seasons
2014–15 ACC women's basketball standings
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

2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team
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
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • (W) Walk-on

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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

See also

References

  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.