The 2016–17 Brown Bears women's basketball team will represent Brown University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bears, led by third year head coach , play their home games at the Pizzitola Sports Center and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 17–13, 7–7 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They lost in the semifinals of the Ivy women's tournament to Penn. They were invited to the Women's Basketball Invitational where defeated UMBC in the first round before losing in the quarterfinals to UNC Greensboro.