2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
| 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season | |
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| Preseason AP #1 | Connecticut |
| NCAA Tournament | 2015 |
| Tournament dates | March 20 – April 7, 2015 |
| National Championship |
Amalie Arena Tampa, Florida |
| NCAA Champions | Connecticut |
| Other champions | UCLA (|WNIT) Louisiana–Lafayette (WBI) |
| Player of the Year | Breanna Stewart |
The 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began in November and ended with the Final Four in Tampa, Florida, April 5–7. Practices officially began on October 3.
This was the final season in which NCAA women's basketball games were played in 20-minute halves. Beginning with the 2015–16 season, the women's game switched to 10-minute quarters, the standard for FIBA and WNBA play.
The 2014–15 season saw the final wave of membership changes resulting from a major realignment of NCAA Division I conferences. The cycle began in 2010 with the Big Ten and the then-Pac-10 publicly announcing their intentions to expand. The fallout from these conferences' moves later affected a majority of D-I conferences.
The top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls.
*Although these tournaments include more teams, only the number listed play for the championship.
Thirty-one athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. The Ivy League does not have a conference tournament, instead giving their automatic invitation to their regular season champion.
For this list, a "major upset" is defined as a win by a team seeded 7 or more spots below its defeated opponent.
After the NCAA Tournament field is announced, 64 teams were invited to participate in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. The tournament began on March 20, 2013, and ended with the final on April 6. Unlike the men's National Invitation Tournament, whose semifinals and finals are held at Madison Square Garden, the WNIT holds all of its games at campus sites.
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