The 2016–17 James Madison Dukes women's basketball team represented James Madison University during the

2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 11, 2016 and ended with the Final Four title game in Dallas on April 2, 2017, won by South Carolina. Practices officially began on September 30, 2016. Season headlines * ...

. The Dukes, led by first year head coach

Sean O'Regan Sean O'Regan (born December 24, 1980) is the current head coach of the James Madison University women's basketball team. Career Coach O'Regan previously served as associate head coach for nine years. He is an alumnus of James Madison and was a s ...

, played their home games at the James Madison University Convocation Center and were members of the

Colonial Athletic Association The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Most of its members are public universi ...

(CAA). They finished the season 26–9, 15–3 in CAA play to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the CAA women's tournament where they lost to Elon. They received an automatic bid to the

Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournam ...

where they defeated Radford and Virginia in the first and second rounds before losing to Villanova in the third round.

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