2014–15 Princeton Tigers women's basketball team
The 2014–15 Princeton Tigers women's basketball team represented Princeton University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Tigers, led by eighth year head coach Courtney Banghart, played their home games at Jadwin Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League.
2014–15 Princeton Tigers women's basketball | |
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Cancún Challenge Mayan Division Champions Fordham Holiday Classic Champions Ivy League Champions | |
NCAA Women's Tournament, round of 32 | |
Conference | Ivy League |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 13 |
AP | No. 13 |
Record | 31–1 (14–0 Ivy) |
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Assistant coaches |
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Home arena | Jadwin Gymnasium |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 13 Princeton† | 14 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 31 | – | 1 | .969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 15 | – | 13 | .536 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 8 | – | 20 | .286 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† Ivy League winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The Tigers finished the season 31–1, 14–0 to win the Ivy League regular season title, earning an automatic trip to the 2015 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament in which they lost to Maryland in the second round. The Tigers' No. 13 ranking in both the Associated Press Top-25 and USA Today Coaches polls are the highest in Ivy League history. Princeton's No. 8 seed is the best an Ivy program has ever earned, and the Tigers' first round win over Green Bay was just the second NCAA victory for an Ivy team, joining No. 16 Harvard's upset over No. 1 Stanford in 1998.
In the January 10 conference opener against Penn, senior guard Blake Dietrick became the 22nd player in program history to surpass the 1,000-point mark.[1] She finished the season ranked 11th in scoring with 1,233 points.[2]
Roster
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Schedule
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Regular season | |||||||||||
11/14/2014* |
at Pittsburgh | W 59–43 | 1–0 |
Peterson Events Center (3,798) Pittsburgh, PA | |||||||
11/16/2014* |
at Duquesne | W 79–62 | 2–0 |
Palumbo Center (732) Pittsburgh, PA | |||||||
11/19/2014* |
Drexel | W 59–43 | 3–0 |
Jadwin Gymnasium (568) Princeton, NJ | |||||||
11/23/2014* |
at American | W 63–56 | 4–0 |
Bender Arena (1,628) Washington, D.C. | |||||||
11/27/2014* |
vs. Wake Forest Cancún Challenge Mayan Division |
W 72–55 | 5–0 |
Hard Rock Resort (650) Playa del Carmen, Mexico | |||||||
11/28/2014* |
vs. Montana Cancún Challenge Mayan Division |
W 80–55 | 6–0 |
Hard Rock Resort (650) Playa del Carmen, Mexico | |||||||
11/29/2014* |
vs. Charlotte Cancún Challenge Mayan Division |
W 73–43 | 7–0 |
Hard Rock Resort (650) Playa del Carmen, Mexico | |||||||
12/06/2014* |
Georgetown | W 83–54 | 8–0 |
Jadwin Gymnasium (769) Princeton, NJ | |||||||
12/09/2014* |
at Michigan | W 85–55 | 9–0 |
Crisler Arena (1,193) Ann Arbor, MI | |||||||
12/13/2014* |
Binghamton | W 96–58 | 10–0 |
Jadwin Gymnasium (558) Princeton, NJ | |||||||
12/16/2014* |
at Delaware | W 87–59 | 11–0 |
Bob Carpenter Center (1,697) Wilmington, DE | |||||||
12/19/2014* |
Portland State | W 104–33 | 12–0 |
Jadwin Gymnasium (645) Princeton, NJ | |||||||
12/21/2014* |
at Monmouth | W 84–53 | 13–0 |
Multipurpose Activity Center (478) West Long Branch, NJ | |||||||
12/29/2014* |
vs. Hartford Fordham Holiday Classic semifinals |
W 64–51 | 14–0 |
Rose Hill Gymnasium (647) Bronx, NY | |||||||
12/30/2014* |
at Fordham Fordham Holiday Classic championship |
W 67–53 | 15–0 |
Rose Hill Gymnasium (510) Bronx, NY | |||||||
01/05/2015* |
No. 22 | at Hampton | W 75–63 | 16–0 |
Hampton Convocation Center (1,500) Hampton, VA | ||||||
01/10/2015 |
No. 22 | Penn | W 83–54 | 17–0 (1–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,081) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
01/30/2015 |
No. 19 | at Harvard | W 96–46 | 18–0 (2–0) |
Lavietes Pavilion (1,117) Cambridge, MA | ||||||
01/31/2015 |
No. 19 | at Dartmouth | W 83–65 | 19–0 (3–0) |
Leede Arena (1,005) Hanover, NH | ||||||
02/06/2015 |
No. 18 | Columbia | W 83–44 | 20–0 (4–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,254) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
02/07/2015 |
No. 18 | Cornell | W 75–47 | 21–0 (5–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,399) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
02/13/2015 |
No. 16 | at Brown | W 86–58 | 22–0 (6–0) |
Pizzitola Sports Center (540) Providence, RI | ||||||
02/14/2015 |
No. 16 | at Yale | W 56–50 | 23–0 (7–0) |
John J. Lee Amphitheater (287) New Haven, CT | ||||||
02/20/2015 |
No. 16 | Dartmouth | W 70–31 | 24–0 (8–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,066) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
02/21/2015 |
No. 16 | Harvard | W 78–57 | 25–0 (9–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,502) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
02/27/2015 |
No. 14 | Yale | W 67–49 | 26–0 (10–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (1,507) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
02/28/2015 |
No. 14 | Brown | W 79–67 | 27–0 (11–0) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (2,097) Princeton, NJ | ||||||
03/06/2015 |
No. 13 | at Cornell | W 70–37 | 28–0 (12–0) |
Newman Arena (724) Ithaca, NY | ||||||
03/07/2015 |
No. 13 | at Columbia | W 63–44 | 29–0 (13–0) |
Levien Gymnasium (1,038) New York City, NY | ||||||
03/10/2015 |
No. 13 | at Penn | W 55–42 | 30–0 (14–0) |
Palestra (N/A) Philadelphia, PA | ||||||
2015 NCAA Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
03/21/2015* |
(8 S) No. 13 | vs. (9 S) Green Bay First Round |
W 80–70 | 31–0 |
Xfinity Center (N/A) College Park, MD | ||||||
03/23/2015* |
(8 S) No. 13 | at (1 S) No. 4 Maryland Second Round |
L 70–85 | 31–1 |
Xfinity Center (7,794) College Park, MD | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. S=Spokane region. |
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Rankings
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 |
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AP | NR | NR | NR | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | 22 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Coaches | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | RV | 24 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 |