# 2016–17 Brown Bears women's basketball team

The 2016–17 Brown Bears women's basketball team represented Brown University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bears, led by third year head coach Sarah Behn, played their home games at the Pizzitola Sports Center and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 17–13, 7–7 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They lost in the semifinals of the Ivy women's tournament to Penn. They were invited to the Women's Basketball Invitational, where they defeated UMBC in the first round before losing in the quarterfinals to UNC Greensboro.

## Ivy League changes

This season, the Ivy League will institute conference postseason tournaments. The tournaments will only award the Ivy League automatic bids for the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments; the official conference championships will continue to be awarded based solely on regular-season results. The Ivy League playoff will take place March 11 and 12 at the Palestra in Philadelphia. There will be two semifinal games on the first day with the No. 1 seed playing the No. 4 seed and the No. 2 seed playing the No. 3 seed. The final will be played the next day for the NCAA bid.

## Schedule

| Date time, TV | Rank$^#$ | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Non-conference regular season ||||||
| 11/11/2016* 6:00 pm | | Howard | W 83–78 | 1–0 | Pizzitola Sports Center (411) Providence, RI |
| 11/14/2016* 7:00 pm | | at Sacred Heart | W 80–66 | 2–0 | William H. Pitt Center (363) Fairfield, CT |
| 11/17/2016* 7:00 pm | | at Bryant Ocean State Cup | L 67–70 | 2–1 | Chace Athletic Center (562) Smithfield, RI |
| 11/20/2016* 12:00 pm | | Colgate | L 62–67 | 2–2 | Pizzitola Sports Center (297) Providence, RI |
| 11/22/2016* 4:00 pm | | Manhattan | L 57–58 | 2–3 | Pizzitola Sports Center (245) Providence, RI |
| 11/27/2016* 1:00 pm | | at Binghamton | W 83–72 | 3–3 | Binghamton University Events Center (1,407) Vestal, NY |
| 12/03/2016* 3:00 pm | | Rhode Island Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament/Ocean State Cup | W 76–65 | 4–3 | Pizzitola Sports Center (485) Providence, RI |
| 12/04/2016* 1:00 pm | | Providence Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament championship | W 77–70 | 5–3 | Pizzitola Sports Center (431) Providence, RI |
| 12/08/2016* 11:30 am | | at Vermont | W 62–50 | 6–3 | Patrick Gym (1,206) Burlington, VT |
| 12/22/2016* 1:00 pm | | Saint Peter's | W 80–71 | 7–3 | Pizzitola Sports Center (650) Providence, RI |
| 12/29/2016* 1:00 pm | | at VCU | L 72–85 | 7–4 | Siegel Center (704) Richmond, VA |
| 12/31/2016* 1:00 pm | | at Morgan State | W 68–51 | 8–4 | Talmadge L. Hill Field House (121) Baltimore, MD |
| 01/09/2017* 12:00 pm | | Rhode Island College | W 90–44 | 9–4 | Pizzitola Sports Center (1,567) Providence, RI |
| Ivy League regular season ||||||
| 01/13/2017 5:30 pm | | at Princeton | W 98–88 | 10–4 (1–0) | Jadwin Gymnasium (690) Princeton, NJ |
| 01/14/2017 8:00 pm | | at Penn | L 60–86 | 10–5 (1–1) | Palestra (427) Philadelphia, PA |
| 01/20/2017 5:30 pm, ESPN3 | | Yale | W 76–73 | 11–5 (2–1) | Pizzitola Sports Center (1,217) Providence, RI |
| 01/28/2017 5:30 pm | | at Yale | L 51–73 | 11–6 (2–2) | John J. Lee Amphitheater (1,007) New Haven, CT |
| 02/03/2017 6:00 pm | | Cornell | W 72–67 | 12–6 (3–2) | Pizzitola Sports Center (232) Providence, RI |
| 02/04/2017 4:00 pm | | Columbia | W 69–60 | 13–6 (4–2) | Pizzitola Sports Center (274) Providence, RI |
| 02/10/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | | at Harvard | L 59–69 | 13–7 (4–3) | Lavietes Pavilion (1,721) Cambridge, MA |
| 02/11/2017 6:00 pm | | at Dartmouth | W 65–62 | 14–7 (5–3) | Leede Arena (181) Hanover, NH |
| 02/17/2017 5:30 pm, ESPN3 | | Penn | L 68–71 | 14–8 (5–4) | Pizzitola Sports Center Providence, RI |
| 02/18/2017 3:30 pm, 2 | | Princeton | L 75–81 | 14–9 (5–5) | Pizzitola Sports Center (1,498) Providence, RI |
| 02/24/2017 6:00 pm, ESPN3 | | Dartmouth | L 88–92 $^{OT}$ | 14–10 (5–6) | Pizzitola Sports Center (243) Providence, RI |
| 02/25/2017 4:00 pm | | Harvard | L 63–66 | 14–11 (5–7) | Pizzitola Sports Center (521) Providence, RI |
| 03/03/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | | at Columbia | W 76–59 | 15–11 (6–7) | Levien Gymnasium (459) New York City, NY |
| 03/04/2017 5:00 pm | | at Cornell | W 67–46 | 16–11 (7–7) | Newman Arena (1,625) Ithaca, NY |
| Ivy League Women's tournament ||||||
| 03/11/2017 11:00 am, ESPN3 | (4) | vs. (1) Penn Semifinals | L 60–71 | 16–12 | Palestra Philadelphia, PA |
| WBI ||||||
| 03/16/2017* 7:00 pm | | at UMBC First Round | W 81–75 | 17–12 | Retriever Activities Center (250) Catonsville, MD |
| 03/19/2017* 2:00 pm | | at UNC Greensboro Quarterfinals | L 84–87 | 17–13 | Fleming Gymnasium (387) Greensboro, NC |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Time. ||||||