2016–17 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team

2016–17 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball

NCAA Women's Tournament, Second Round
Conference	Big 12
Ranking
Coaches	No. 21
AP	No. 23
2016–17 record	23–10 (13–5 Big 12)
Head coach	Sherri Coale (21st year)
Assistant coach	Jan Ross
Assistant coach	Pam DeCosta
Assistant coach	Chad Thrailkill
Home arena	Lloyd Noble Center
Seasons ← 2015–16 2017–18 →

2016–17 Big 12 Conference women's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
#5 Baylor	17	–	1	.944	33	–	4	.892
#14 Texas	15	–	3	.833	25	–	9	.735
#23 Oklahoma	13	–	5	.722	23	–	10	.697
#24 Kansas State	11	–	7	.611	23	–	11	.676
Iowa State	9	–	9	.500	18	–	13	.581
#22 West Virginia†	8	–	10	.444	24	–	11	.686
Oklahoma State	6	–	12	.333	17	–	15	.531
Texas Tech	5	–	13	.278	14	–	17	.452
TCU	4	–	14	.222	12	–	18	.400
Kansas	2	–	16	.111	8	–	22	.267

† 2017 Big 12 Conference Tournament winner As of March 26, 2017; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016–17 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team will represent the University of Oklahoma in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Sooners are led by Sherri Coale in her twenty-first season. The team will play its home games at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma as a member of the Big 12 Conference. They finished the season 23–10, 13–5 in Big 12 play to finish in third place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Women's Tournament to West Virginia. They received at-large bid of the NCAA Women's Tournament where they defeated Gonzaga in the first round before losing to Washington in the second round.

x- Sooner Sports Television (SSTV) is aired locally on Fox Sports. However the contract allows games to air on various affiliates. Those affiliates are FSSW, FSSW+, FSOK, FSOK+, and FCS Atlantic, Central, and Pacific.