# 2014–15 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team

The 2014–15 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2014–15 college basketball season. The Lady Vols, led by 3rd year head coach Holly Warlick, played their games at Thompson–Boling Arena and were members of the Southeastern Conference.
They finished the season 30-6, 15-1 SEC play to share the SEC regular season title with South Carolina. They advanced to the SEC women's tournament championship game where they lost to South Carolina. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament, where they beat Boise State in first round, Pittsburgh in the second round, and Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen, before losing last year's Sweet Sixteen rematch to Maryland in the Elite Eight.
In the 2015 SEC women's basketball tournament quarterfinals, senior Ariel Massengale became only the third Tennessee player to have 1,000 points and 500 career assists.

## Rankings

Ranking Movement Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. :
| Poll | Pre | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7 | Wk 8 | Wk 9 | Wk 10 | Wk 11 | Wk 12 | Wk 13 | Wk 14 | Wk 15 | Wk 16 | Wk 17 | Wk 18 | Final |
| AP | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Coaches | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

## Schedule and Results

| Date time, TV | Rank$^#$ | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Exhibition ||||||
| Nov 9, 2014* 2:00 p.m. | No. 4 | Carson–Newman | W 90–57 | – | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,924) Knoxville, TN |
| Regular Season ||||||
| Nov 14, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 | Penn | W 97–52 | 1–0 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,706) Knoxville, TN |
| Nov 17, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 | Oral Roberts | W 91–39 | 2–0 | Thompson–Boling Arena (8,861) Knoxville, TN |
| Nov 21, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 | Winthrop | W 81–48 | 3–0 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,267) Knoxville, TN |
| Nov 24, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 | Tennessee State | W 97–46 | 4–0 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,137) Knoxville, TN |
| Nov 26, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 | at Chattanooga | L 63–67 | 4–1 | McKenzie Arena (4,160) Chattanooga, TN |
| Nov 30, 2014* 6:30 p.m., FS1 | No. 4 | at No. 6 Texas | L 57–72 | 4–2 | Frank Erwin Center (4,198) Austin, TX |
| Dec 3, 2014* 7:00 p.m. | No. 14 | Saint Francis (PA) | W 111–44 | 5–2 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,126) Knoxville, TN |
| Dec 7, 2014* 3:00 p.m., ESPN3 | No. 14 | at Lipscomb | W 85–51 | 6–2 | Allen Arena (2,742) Nashville, TN |
| Dec 14, 2014* 3:00 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 11 | at No. 17 Rutgers | W 55–45 | 7–2 | The RAC (4,543) Piscataway, NJ |
| Dec 16, 2014* 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 11 | Wichita State | W 54–51 | 8–2 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,026) Knoxville, TN |
| Dec 20, 2014* 1:00 p.m., SECN | No. 11 | No. 7 Stanford Rivalry | W 59–40 | 9–2 | Thompson–Boling Arena (13,056) Knoxville, TN |
| Dec 28, 2014* 1:00 p.m., SECN | No. 8 | No. 10 Oregon State | W 74–63 | 10–2 | Thompson–Boling Arena (11,123) Knoxville, TN |
| Jan 2, 2015 9:00 p.m., SECN | No. 8 | Missouri | W 63–53 | 11–2 (1–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,570) Knoxville, TN |
| Jan 5, 2015 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 7 | at Vanderbilt Rivalry | W 57–49 | 12–2 (2–0) | Memorial Gymnasium (7,212) Nashville, TN |
| Jan 8, 2015 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 7 | No. 9 Texas A&M | W 81–58 | 13–2 (3–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (10,507) Knoxville, TN |
| Jan 11, 2015 3:00 p.m., ESPNU | No. 7 | at Arkansas | W 60–51 | 14–2 (4–0) | Bud Walton Arena (2,344) Fayetteville, AR |
| Jan 15, 2015 8:00 p.m., FSN | No. 6 | at Auburn | W 54–42 | 15–2 (5–0) | Auburn Arena (2,590) Auburn, AL |
| Jan 19, 2015* 7:00 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 5 | at No. 6 Notre Dame | L 77–88 | 15–3 | Edmund P. Joyce Center (9,149) South Bend, IN |
| Jan 22, 2015 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 5 | LSU | W 75–58 | 16–3 (6–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (11,612) Knoxville, TN |
| Jan 25, 2015 2:00 p.m., SECN | No. 5 | No. 22 Georgia | W 59–51 | 17–3 (7–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (13,428) Knoxville, TN |
| Jan 29, 2015 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 6 | at No. 10 Kentucky Rivalry | W 73–72 | 18–3 (8–0) | Memorial Coliseum (7,407) Lexington, KY |
| Feb 1, 2015 3:00 p.m., SECN | No. 6 | No. 18 Mississippi State | W 79–67 | 19–3 (9–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (11,507) Knoxville, TN |
| Feb 8, 2015 2:00 p.m., ESPNU | No. 6 | at Florida | W 64–56 | 20–3 (10–0) | O'Connell Center (3,439) Gainesville, FL |
| Feb 12, 2015 7:00 p.m. | No. 6 | at Ole Miss | W 69–49 | 21–3 (11–0) | Tad Smith Coliseum (2,051) Oxford, MS |
| Feb 15, 2015 3:00 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 6 | No. 10 Kentucky Rivalry | W 72–58 | 22–3 (12–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (16,013) Knoxville, TN |
| Feb 19, 2015 7:00 p.m., FSN | No. 6 | Alabama | W 77–56 | 23–3 (13–0) | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,637) Knoxville, TN |
| Feb 23, 2015 9:00 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 6 | at No. 2 South Carolina | L 66–71 | 23–4 (13–1) | Colonial Life Arena (14,390) Columbia, SC |
| Feb 26, 2015 9:00 p.m., SECN | No. 6 | at Georgia | W 70–59 | 24–4 (14–1) | Stegeman Coliseum (3,624) Athens, GA |
| Mar 1, 2015 5:00 p.m., SECN | No. 6 | Vanderbilt Rivalry | W 79–49 | 25–4 (15–1) | Thompson–Boling Arena (13,027) Knoxville, TN |
| 2015 SEC Tournament ||||||
| Mar 6, 2015 7:00 p.m., SECN | No. 5 | vs. Georgia Quarterfinals | W 75–41 | 26–4 | Verizon Arena (4,189) North Little Rock, AR |
| Mar 7, 2015 7:30 p.m., ESPNU | No. 5 | vs. No. 12 Kentucky Semifinals / Rivalry | W 75–64 | 27–4 | Verizon Arena (5,524) North Little Rock, AR |
| Mar 8, 2015 3:30 p.m., ESPN | No. 5 | vs. No. 3 South Carolina Championship Game | L 46–62 | 27–5 | Verizon Arena (5,819) North Little Rock, AR |
| 2015 NCAA Women's Tournament ||||||
| Mar 21, 2015* 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 6 | Boise State First Round | W 72–61 | 28–5 | Thompson–Boling Arena (6,439) Knoxville, TN |
| Mar 23, 2015* 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 | No. 6 | Pittsburgh Second Round | W 77–67 | 29–5 | Thompson–Boling Arena (5,712) Knoxville, TN |
| Mar 28, 2015* 7:00 p.m., ESPN | No. 6 | vs. Gonzaga Sweet Sixteen | W 73–69 $^{OT}$ | 30–5 | Spokane Arena (8,686) Spokane, WA |
| Mar 30, 2015* 9:00 p.m., ESPN | No. 6 | vs. No. 4 Maryland Elite Eight | L 48–58 | 30–6 | Spokane Arena (5,064) Spokane, WA |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Time. ||||||
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