# 2016–17 Cornell Big Red women's basketball team

The 2016–17 Cornell Big Red women's basketball team represented Cornell University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Big Red, led by fifteenth year head coach Dayna Smith, played their home games at Newman Arena and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 16–11, 7–7 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for fourth place.

## 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 | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Non-conference regular season ||||||
| 11/11/2016* 7:00 pm | New Hampshire | W 63–56 | 1–0 | Newman Arena (312) Ithaca, NY |
| 11/13/2016* 1:00 pm | Loyola (MD) | W 58–50 | 2–0 | Newman Arena (365) Ithaca, NY |
| 11/16/2016* 7:00 pm | at Colgate | W 70–57 | 3–0 | Cotterell Court (618) Hamilton, NY |
| 11/19/2016* 12:00 pm | at Towson | L 63–68 | 3–1 | SECU Arena (263) Towson, MD |
| 11/22/2016* 7:00 pm | Howard | W 67–55 | 4–1 | Newman Arena (310) Ithaca, NY |
| 11/26/2016* 6:00 pm, ACCN Extra | at Pittsburgh | L 44–56 | 4–2 | Peterson Events Center (717) Pittsburgh, PA |
| 11/28/2016* 7:00 pm | at Saint Francis (PA) | W 78–72 | 5–2 | DeGol Arena (406) Loretto, PA |
| 12/03/2016* 1:00 pm | Drexel | L 53–63 | 5–3 | Newman Arena (319) Ithaca, NY |
| 12/17/2016* 1:00 pm | at Youngstown State | W 80–75 | 6–3 | Beeghly Center (1,140) Youngstown, OH |
| 12/22/2016* 5:00 pm | Canisius | W 60–43 | 7–3 | Newman Arena (412) Ithaca, NY |
| 12/30/2016* 1:00 pm | at Stony Brook | L 65–66 $^{2OT}$ | 7–4 | Island Federal Credit Union Arena (522) Stony Brook, NY |
| 01/01/2017* 2:00 pm | at Binghamton | W 54–51 | 8–4 | Binghamton University Events Center (1,339) Vestal, NY |
| 01/05/2017* 6:00 pm | at Delaware State | W 72–51 | 9–4 | Memorial Hall (257) Dover, NY |
| Ivy League regular season ||||||
| 01/14/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | Columbia | W 77–70 | 10–4 (1–0) | Newman Arena Ithaca, NY |
| 01/21/2017 4:30 pm, ESPN3 | at Columbia | W 69–55 | 11–4 (2–0) | Levien Gymnasium (875) New York City, NY |
| 01/27/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Harvard | L 59–62 | 11–5 (2–1) | Lavietes Pavilion (653) Cambridge, MA |
| 01/28/2017 6:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Dartmouth | L 74–84 | 11–6 (2–2) | Leede Arena (1,117) Hanover, NH |
| 02/03/2017 6:00 pm | at Brown | L 67–72 | 11–7 (2–3) | Pizzitola Sports Center (232) Providence, RI |
| 02/04/2017 6:00 pm | at Yale | W 76–63 | 12–7 (3–3) | John J. Lee Amphitheater (427) New Haven, CT |
| 02/10/2017 6:00 pm | Princeton | L 54–58 | 12–8 (3–4) | Newman Arena (659) Ithaca, NY |
| 02/11/2017 5:00 pm | Penn | L 55–61 | 12–9 (3–5) | Newman Arena (729) Ithaca, NY |
| 02/17/2017 6:00 pm, ESPN3 | Dartmouth | W 72–57 | 13–9 (4–5) | Newman Arena (467) Ithaca, NY |
| 02/18/2017 5:00 pm | Harvard | W 57–52 | 14–9 (5–5) | Newman Arena (559) Ithaca, NY |
| 02/24/2017 7:00 pm | at Penn | L 34–47 | 14–10 (5–6) | Palestra (1,013) Philadelphia, PA |
| 02/25/2017 6:00 pm | at Princeton | W 55–44 | 15–10 (6–6) | Jadwin Gymnasium (1,245) Princeton, NJ |
| 03/03/2017 6:00 pm, ESPN3 | Yale | W 59–49 | 16–10 (7–6) | Newman Arena (621) Ithaca, NY |
| 03/04/2017 5:00 pm | Brown | L 46–67 | 16–11 (7–7) | Newman Arena (1,625) Ithaca, NY |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Time. ||||||