The 2016–17 Purdue Boilermakers women's basketball team represented Purdue University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Boilermakers, led by eleventh-year head coach Sharon Versyp, played their home games at Mackey Arena and were members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 23–13, 10–6 in Big Ten play to finish in tie for fourth place. They advanced to the championship game of the Big Ten women's tournament, where they lost to Maryland. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament, where they defeated Green Bay in the first round before losing to Notre Dame in an overtime thriller in the second round.
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=9 style="background:#000000; color:white;"| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style="background:#000000; color:white;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#000000; color:white;"| Big Ten regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#000000; color:white;"| Big Ten Women's Tournament
!colspan=12 style=""|NCAA Women's Tournament
Source
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 N/A Coaches + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received votes
See also 2016–17 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team
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