The 2016–17 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team represented the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 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
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Ragin' Cajuns were led by fifth-year head coach Garry Brodhead and played all home games at the
Cajundome with a select few at
Blackham Coliseum during the Cajundome renovations towards the beginning of the season, the first games played there in thirty years. This is also one of the first years that women's basketball does not play at
Earl K. Long Gymnasium
Earl K. Long Gymnasium is a 1,121-seat multi-purpose sports venue on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana. It is home of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns volleyball team. It was built in 1939 and named for Ear ...
, their previous on-campus home, at any time during the season They were members in the
Sun Belt Conference
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. They finished the season 20-11, 11–7 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place. They advanced to the championship game of the
Sun Belt women's tournament where they lost to Troy by the score of 64-78. They did not compete in any other postseason tournaments.
Previous season
The Ragin' Cajuns finished the
2016–17 season 25-10, 13–7 in Sun Belt play to finish third in the conference. They made it to the 2016 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball semifinal game after defeating
UT Arlington
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in the first round game before losing to
Little Rock in the semifinals. They would continue to be invited to the
Women's Basketball Invitational for the second time in two years after previously winning the Championship, and would eventually be crowned National Champions again in the WBI after defeating
Northwestern State,
Stetson
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Youngstown State
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, and
Weber State in the First Round, Second Round, Semifinals, and Championship Game, respectively.
Roster
Schedule and results
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Sun Belt Women's Tournament
See also
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References
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Louisiana-Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and the s ...
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