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University | Brown University | ||
First season | 1973 | ||
Conference | Ivy League | ||
Location | Providence, RI | ||
Head coach | Sarah Behn (3rd year) | ||
Arena |
Pizzitola Sports Center (Capacity: 2,800) |
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Nickname | Bears | ||
Colors | Seal Brown, White, and Cardinal |
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NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
1994 | |||
Conference regular season champions | |||
1984, 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2006 |
The Brown Bears women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Brown University. The school competes in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bears play home basketball games at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island on the university campus.
Brown has won 6 Ivy League championships, three of them outright (1984, 1992, 1993) and three shared (1985, 1994, 2006). Twice they have played in a playoff (the league did not have a conference tournament until 2017) to determine the Ivy League bid for the NCAA Tournament, winning 72-62 win over Dartmouth in 1994 and losing 73-62 in 2006 to Dartmouth.
The Bears have made the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament once. They have a record of 0-1.