The Samford Bulldogs women's basketball team, formerly the Samford Lady Bulldogs, is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing

Samford University Samford University is a Private university, private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama, United States. It was founded by Baptist Church, Baptists in 1841 as Howard College and located until 1887 in Marion, Alabama. It is governed by an in ...

in Homewood,

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, United States. Since 2008, the team competes in the

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(SoCon), after leaving the

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(OVC). They play their home games at the

Pete Hanna Center The Pete Hanna Center is the building housing the 4,974-seat Thomas E. and Marla H. Corts Arena on the campus of Samford University in Homewood (a suburb of Birmingham), in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is home to the Samford Bulldogs basketball ...

Coaches

The Samford Bulldogs have had four coaches in their history. Until the end of the 2018–19 season, the team was coached by Mike Morris, who took over in 2002 for Janet Cone after she became Samford's associate athletics director. In 2019, Carley Kuhns was hired from

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to become the third head coach in history. After Kuhns announced her resignation in April 2025, the Bulldogs promoted associate head coach

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to be the fourth head coach of the program.

Janet Cone coaching history

Mike Morris coaching history

Carley Kuhns coaching history

Source: Samford Women's Basketball Fact Book
(PDF)

NCAA tournament results

The Bulldogs have appeared in two NCAA Tournaments, with a combined record of 0–2.

References

External links

* {{Southern Conference women's basketball navbox Southern Conference women's basketball