The 2016–17 Albany Great Danes women's basketball team represented the University at Albany, SUNY during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Great Danes, led by first-year head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee, played their home games at SEFCU Arena in Albany, New York and were members of the America East Conference. They finished the season 21–12, 12–4 in America East play, to finish in second place. They defeated Vermont, Hartford, and Maine to win America East women's tournament for the sixth straight year. They received an automatic bid of the NCAA women's tournament, where they lost to UConn in the first round.
Media All home games and conference road games streamed on either ESPN3 on AmericaEast.tv. Most road games streamed on the opponents' websites. Selected games were broadcast on the radio on WCDB.
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=12 style="background:#452663; color:#FFC726;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#452663; color:#FFC726;"| American East regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#452663; color:#FFC726;"| America East women's tournament
!colspan=12 style="background:#452663; color:#FFC726;"| NCAA women's tournament
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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 No change (RV) Received votes (NR) Not ranked
See also 2016–17 Albany Great Danes men's basketball team
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