2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
The 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 11, 2016 and ended with the Final Four title game in Dallas on April 2, 2017, won by South Carolina.Only one school joined a new conference for 2016–17: The top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls.The Crimson Tide women began play in 1974 at Foster Auditorium, and split home games between the two facilities until moving full-time into the Coliseum in 1981.The women would move back to Foster near the end of the 2010–11 season, and used that as their main venue until returning to the Coliseum.However, of the major selectors in women's basketball, only the AP divides its selections into separate teams.