The 2016–17 Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball team represented the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

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 Buckeyes, led by fourth year head coach

Kevin McGuff Kevin Patrick McGuff (born December 3, 1969) is an American college basketball coach who the current head women's basketball coach at Ohio State University after spending two seasons as head coach of the University of Washington. Prior to his tim ...

, played their home games at

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and were members of the

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. They finished the season 28–7, 15–1 in Big Ten play to win a share of the Big Ten regular season title with

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. They defeated Northwestern in the quarterfinals of the

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before losing to

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. They received at-large bid of the NCAA women's tournament as the No. 5 seed in the Lexington region. There they defeated

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and

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to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. In the Sweet Sixteen, they lost to Notre Dame.

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Ohio State The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...

Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio. The athletic programs are named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree ...

Roster

Schedule

Rankings

See also

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