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2014–15 Penn State Lady Lions basketball team

Intercollegiate basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ17515389 ↗
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The 2014–15 Penn State Lady Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Lions, led by eighth year head coach Coquese Washington, played their home games at the Bryce Jordan Center and were members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 6–24, 3–15 in Big Ten play to finish in tie for thirteenth place. They lost in the first round of the Big Ten women's tournament to Indiana.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014–15 Penn State Lady Lions basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.