The Sacramento State Hornets women's basketball team is the basketball team that represent
California State University, Sacramento in
Sacramento, California. The school's team currently competes in the
Big Sky Conference.
History
Sacramento State began play in 1976. They joined Division I in 1991. They played in the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NCIAC) for their first season before playing in the GSC from 1977 to 1981. They joined the NCAC in 1981, playing until 1985 before becoming an Independent. They joined the
American West Conference in 1994. They joined the
Big Sky Conference in 1996. The first postseason appearance for the Hornets was the
2015 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2015 Women's National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2015 Women's NCAA tournament. The annual tournament began on March 18 and ended on April ...
, where they made the Third Round. The 2022-23 season saw the program set multiple records: the first time they won over twenty games in a season and the first time they won the regular season Big Sky title, doing so by going 13-5 (tying a program record for best conference record) for a three way tie. In the Big Sky Tournament, they beat Idaho and Portland State to reach their first ever Big Sky final. They beat Northern Arizona on March 8 by a score of 76-63 to win their first conference tournament and reach the NCAA tournament.
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Postseason
NCAA Division I Tournament results
The Hornets have appeared in the
NCAA Division I Tournament once. Their record is 0-1.
WNIT results
The Hornets have appeared in 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 ...
once. Their record is 2-1.
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