The Cornell Big Red women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. The school competes in the

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in Division I of the

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(NCAA). The Big Red play home basketball games at the

Newman Arena Newman Arena is a 4,473-seat multi-purpose arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, located in Bartels Hall, which is adjacent to Lynah Rink. It is home to the Cornell Big Red basketball and volleyball teams. It also holds the home of Co ...

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on the university campus.

History

The Big Red have played at a varsity level since 1971, though Cornell had women play in class competitions before then. They started playing in the

in 1974. The Big Red played in only 7 games for the 1976–77 season due to being snowed in for days before the opener and a bus accident three weeks later that injured many of the players, which cancelled the season. Cornell has just one conference title (2008), winning a playoff with Dartmouth 64–47 to break the three way tie (Harvard being the other time) and winning the bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Postseason appearances

The Big Red have made the

NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Div ...

once. They have a record of 0–1.

References

External links

* 1971 establishments in New York (state) {{NewYork-basketball-team-stub