The Morehead State Eagles women's basketball team is the women's basketball team that represents

Morehead State University Morehead State University (MSU) is a public university in Morehead, Kentucky, United States. The university began as Morehead Normal School, which opened its doors in 1887. The Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics, a two-yea ...

in Morehead,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States. The team currently competes in the

Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in partnership with ...

. They are one of 63 schools to have never appeared in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

History

Morehead State began play in 1970. They joined the

(OVC) in 1977. They won the

Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament The Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Ohio Valley Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament involving 8 of the 11 league schools, and seeding is bas ...

in 1979, finishing off a year in which they went 28-4 (and 8–1 in OVC play). They have made the postseason in 2010 (WBI) and 2017 (WNIT). As of the end of the 2015–16 season, the Eagles had an all-time record of 542–632.http://msueagles.com.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2016/11/8/Women_s_Basketball_Information_Guide_1_.pdf

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