The 2023–24 Kent State Golden Flashes women's basketball team represented Kent State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Golden Flashes, led by eighth-year head coach Todd Starkey, played their home games at the MAC Center in Kent, Ohio, as members of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The team finished the regular season at 18–10 and finished third in the Mid-American Conference with a 13–5 record in conference play. In the 2024 MAC women's basketball tournament, the Golden Flashes defeated Northern Illinois, Ball State and Buffalo to win their fourth MAC tournament title and first since 2002, and advance to the 2024 NCAA tournament. In the NCAA tournament, the Golden Flashes were seeded 15th in the Albany 1 region and fell to second-seeded Notre Dame in the first round to finish the season at 21–11.
Previous season The Golden Flashes finished the 2022–23 season 21–11, 12–6 in MAC play, to finish in fourth place. In the MAC tournament, they defeated Northern Illinois in the quarterfinals, before falling to top-seeded and eventual tournament champions Toledo in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid into the WNIT, where they lost to Syracuse in the first round.
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Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style=| MAC regular season
!colspan=12 style=|MAC tournament
!colspan=9 style=|NCAA women's tournament
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