The 2016–17 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team represented University of Kentucky during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by tenth-year head coach Matthew Mitchell, played their home games at the Memorial Coliseum, with one game at Rupp Arena and were members of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 22–11, 11–5 in SEC play to finish in a tie for third place. They advanced to the semifinals of the SEC women's tournament, where they lost to South Carolina. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament, where they defeated Belmont in the first round before losing to Ohio State in the second round.
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=9 style="background:#273BE2; color:white;"| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style="background:#273BE2; color:white;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#273BE2; color:white;"| SEC regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#273BE2; color:white;"| SEC Women's Tournament
!colspan=9 style="background:#273BE2; color:white;"| 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 19 15 20 17 15 19 18 17 24 RV RV RV 25 RV RV 22 20 19 18 N/A Coaches 19 19 24 20 18 23 24 23 RV NR NR NR RV NR NR RV 24 24 24 25 + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received votes
See also 2016–17 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
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