The 2016–17 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Returning as head coach was Joanne P. McCallie entering her 10th season. The team plays its home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 28–6, 13–3 in ACC play to finish in a tie for second place. They advanced to the championship game of the ACC women's tournament where they lost to Notre Dame. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament where they defeated Hampton in the first round before getting upset by Oregon in the second round.
2016–17 media All Blue Devils games will air on the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network. WDNC will once again act as the main station for the Blue Devils IMG Sports Network games with Steve Barnes providing the play-by-play and Morgan Patrick acting as analyst.
Roster
Rankings 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball 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 RV RV RV RV 21 18 17 15 13 12 15 14 15 14 13 13 13 9 9 N/A Coaches RV RV RV RV 21 20 18 17 15 15 16т 15 15 15 14 13 11 9 9 + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking No change (RV) Received votes (NR) Not ranked
Schedule
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Regular Season
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57;"| ACC Women's Tournament
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57;"| NCAA Women's Tournament
Source
See also 2016–17 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
References