The 2016–17 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team represented the University of South Florida in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Bulls, coached by Jose Fernandez in his seventeenth season, played their home games at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. This was USF's fourth season as a member of the American Athletic Conference, known as The American or AAC. They finished the season 24–9, 11–5 in AAC play to finish in third place. They advanced to the championship game of the American Athletic Conference women's tournament for the third year in a row, where they lost to Connecticut for the third time. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament, where they lost to Missouri in the first round.
Media All Bulls games aired on Bullscast RadioBullscast Radio or CBS 1010 AM. Conference home games rotated between ESPN3, AAC Digital,AAC Digital and Bullscast. Road games were typically streamed on the opponent's website, though some conference road games also appeared on ESPN3 or AAC Digital.
Roster
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!colspan=9 style="background:#006747; color:#CFC493;"| Regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#006747;"|American Athletic Conference Women's Tournament
!colspan=12 style="background:#006747;"|NCAA Women's Tournament
Rankings
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See also 2016–17 South Florida Bulls men's basketball team
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