The 2016–17 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team represented the University of Wyoming in the 2016–17 college basketball season. The Cowgirls are led by fourteenth year head coach Joe Legerski. The Cowgirls played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium and were members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 22–10, 13–5 in Mountain West play to finish in second place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West women's tournament to Fresno State. They were invited to the Women's National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Seattle in the first round before losing in to Washington State in the second round.
Roster
Statistics
Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Natalie Baker 32 30 27.9 .424 .318 .879 5.7 1.2 0.7 0.3 9.7 Marleah Campbell 29 0 8.6 .525 .333 .846 1.8 0.3 0.1 0.3 3.2 Bailee Cotton 32 31 18.5 .431 .000 .692 4.8 0.6 0.5 0.2 5.9 Marta Gomez 32 9 24.0 .418 .396 .818 3.0 1.7 0.5 0.2 8.8 Daley Handy 10 0 4.3 .200 .000 .000 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.4 Selale Kepenc 14 0 5.2 .306 .385 .875 1.5 0.2 0.3 0.1 2.8 Riikka Kujala 24 0 8.6 .333 .333 .833 0.6 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.8 Hailey Ligocki 32 32 27.3 .417 .182 .661 2.4 2.5 1.0 0.3 7.3 Tijana Raca 10 0 4.0 .000 .000 .500 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 Liv Roberts 25 25 32.6 .496 .410 .814 7.8 2.4 1.2 0.2 15.6 Taylor Rusk 32 1 21.2 .487 .446 .593 2.2 1.5 0.8 0.1 6.3 Skyler Snodgrass 13 0 5.2 .292 .235 .250 1.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 1.5 Clara Tapia 32 32 30.2 .400 .365 .680 2.2 4.5 1.1 0.1 6.2 Rachelle Tucker 19 0 8.9 .600 .000 .667 2.7 0.1 0.1 0.1 4.8
Schedule
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West Women's Tournament
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| WNIT
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 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR RV NR NR NR NR NR NR NR N/A Coaches NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received Votes
See also 2016–17 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team
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