# 2014–15 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team

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. 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.

## 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

## Rankings

2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
Legend :
| | Increase in ranking |
| | Decrease in ranking |
| | No Change |
| (RV) | Received Votes |
| (NR) | Not Ranked |