The 2016–17 Washington Huskies women's basketball team represented University of Washington during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Huskies, led by fourth-year head coach Mike Neighbors, played their home games at Alaska Airlines Arena and were members of the Pac-12 Conference. In the final regular season game for the Huskies on February 25, 2017, Kelsey Plum scored a Pac-12 record 57 points in an 84–77 win over Utah to set NCAA Division I women's basketball career scoring record. They finished the season 29–6, 15–3 in Pac-12 play to finish in a tie for second place. They were upset by the 10 seed Oregon in the quarterfinals of Pac-12 women's tournament. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament where they defeated Montana State and Oklahoma in the first and second rounds before losing to Mississippi State in the sweet sixteen. They had 29 wins in the regular season, the most in school history.
On April 3, Mike Neighbors resigned from Washington to accept a head coaching job at Arkansas. He finished with a four-year record of 98–41.
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=9 style="background:#363c74; color:#e8d3a2;" | Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#363c74; color:#e8d3a2;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#363c74; color:#e8d3a2;"| Pac-12 regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#363c74;" | Pac-12 Women's Tournament
!colspan=9 style="background:#363c74;" | NCAA Women's Tournament
Rankings
+ Regular season pollsPoll Pre-season Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Week17 Week18 Week19 Final AP 17 17 15 13 11 11 9 9 12 8 8 7 10 10 9 11 11 12 12 N/A Coaches 15 15 13 13 11 11 9 9 11 9 7 7 10 8 9 12 10 11 11 11 + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received votes
See also 2016–17 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
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