The 2024–25 Miami Hurricanes women's basketball team represented the
University of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...
during the
2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
The 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 4, 2024. The regular season ended on March 16, 2025, with the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with ...
. The Hurricanes were led by first-year head coach
Tricia Cullop and played their home games at the
Watsco Center in
Coral Gables, Florida
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as members of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
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(ACC). Cullop replaced nineteenth-year head coach
Katie Meier who announced her retirement on March 22, 2024.
The Hurricanes started the season well, reeling off seven straight victories to start the season. The highlight of the run was an away win over rival
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
79–51. This run included two victories in the Miami Thanksgiving Tournament. Their winning streak was broken on December 4 in the
ACC–SEC Challenge when they lost to
Vanderbilt 70–88. The Hurricanes went on another four game winning streak from there, including winning their first ACC game against
Pittsburgh
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, 62–52. They also recorded neutral site wins over
Nevada
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and
Oregon State in the Maui Classic. The turn of the year saw the team enter a rough patch as they lost their next seven straight games. The run included only one loss to a ranked team, number 17
North Carolina
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. The run ended on January 26 with a 70–63 win over
SMU. The Hurricanes followed that with another win, 77–74 against
Virginia
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. However they could not build on that streak, and lost all five of their next games, all against ranked opponents. They defeated
Wake Forest 62–60 before losing their final two games on a road trip to California.
The Hurricanes finished the
season
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14–15 and 4–14 in
ACC play to finish in sixteenth place. Under the new ACC tournament rules, they did not qualify for the
2025 ACC tournament. They were not invited to the
NCAA tournament or the
WBIT.
Previous season
The Hurricanes finished the
2023–24 season 19–12 overall and 8–10 in
ACC play to finish in ninth place. As the ninth seed in the
ACC tournament, they defeated eighth seed
North Carolina
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in the second round before losing to first-seeded
Virginia Tech
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...
in the quarterfinals. On Selection Sunday, the Hurricanes were not picked to be a part of the field for the
2024 NCAA tournament, and were left out by the selection committee. The team declined an invite to the inaugural
WBIT, ending their season.
Off-season
Departures
Incoming transfers
Recruiting class
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Roster
Schedule
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Rankings
References
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Miami
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Miami Hurricanes women's basketball team
Miami Hurricanes women's basketball team