The Brown Bears women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Brown University. The school competes in the

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in Division I of the

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(NCAA). The

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play home basketball games at the Pizzitola Sports Center in

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on the university campus.

History

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.

Postseason appearances

The Bears have made the

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once. They have a record of 0–1.

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