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2014–15 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team

Intercollegiate basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ17985304 ↗
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The 2014–15 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by eighth-year head coach Matthew Mitchell, played their home games at the Memorial Coliseum, with one game at Rupp Arena and were members of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 24–10, 10–6 in SEC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. They advanced to the semifinals of the SEC women's tournament, where they lost to Tennessee. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament, where they defeated Tennessee State in the first before being upset by Dayton in the second round.

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“2014–15 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team” enters the record as intercollegiate basketball season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kentucky, Wildcats and women's can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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