2016–17 Penn Quakers women's basketball team

2016–17 Penn Quakers women's basketball
Ivy League regular season
& tournament champions
NCAA women's tournament, first round
ConferenceIvy League
Record228 (131 Ivy)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Bernadette Laukaitis
  • Kelly Killion
Home arenaPalestra
2016–17 Ivy League women's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Penn131 .929227  .759
Princeton95 .6431613  .552
Harvard86 .571219  .700
Cornell77 .5001611  .593
Brown77 .5001612  .571
Yale68 .4291512  .556
Columbia311 .2141314  .481
Dartmouth311 .214819  .296
2017 Ivy League Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016–17 Penn Quakers women's basketball team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Quakers, led by eighth year head coach Mike McLaughlin, played their home games at the Palestra and were members of the Ivy League. The team was picked by the Ivy League in the pre-season to be conference champions. They finished the season 22–8, 13–1 to win the Ivy League regular season title and their first ever Ivy League Tournament to earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament, where they had a 21 point lead before losing to Texas A&M in the first round.