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2014–15 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team

Intercollegiate basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ20648692 ↗
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The 2014–15 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team represented University of Wyoming in the 2014–15 college basketball season. The Cowgirls, led by twelfth year head coach Joe Legerski, played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium and were members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 16–14, 10–8 in Mountain West play for a tie to finish in fifth place. They advance to the quarterfinals of the 2015 Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament, where they lost to Fresno State in the quarterfinals.

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