2017–18 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's basketball team explained

Mode:	Women's basketball
Year:	2017–18
Team:	Minnesota Golden Gophers
Conference:	Big Ten Conference
Short Conf:	Big Ten
Record:	24 - 9
Conf Record:	11 - 5
Hc Year:	4th
Asst Coach1:	Nikita Lowry Dawkins
Asst Coach2:	Marty McGillan
Asst Coach3:	Gail Striegler
Champion:	Lady Rebel Round-Up Champions
Bowl:	NCAA Women's Tournament
Bowl Result:	second round

The 2017–18 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's basketball team represented the University of Minnesota during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Golden Gophers, led by fourth-year head coach Marlene Stollings, played their home games at Williams Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 24–9, 11–5 in Big Ten play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They defeated Iowa in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten women's tournament before losing to Ohio State in the semifinals. They received at-large bid of the NCAA women's tournament as the No. 7 seed in the Spokane region. There they defeated Green Bay before losing to Oregon in the Second Round.

On April 9, 2018, head coach Marlene Stollings resigned from Minnesota to accept the head coaching job at Texas Tech. She finished with a four-year record of 82–47.^[1] On April 12, the school hired the second all-time leading scorer for the Gophers, Lindsay Whalen, as head coach.^[2] As part of her contract with the school, Whalen will continue to play for the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx while she is head coach.^[3]

Schedule and results

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Rankings

See main article: 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings.

+ Regular Season Polls	Poll	Pre- Season	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Week 18	Week 19	Final
AP	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	N/A
Coaches	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV

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		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
(RV)		Received Votes

See also

2017–18 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team

Notes and References

1. News: Marlene Stollings leaving Gophers basketball for Texas Tech job. Star Tribune. April 9, 2018.
2. News: Lindsay Whalen coming home as U coach — and will do double duty with Lynx. 2018-04-12. Twin Cities. 2018-04-20. en-US.
3. News: Lindsay Whalen will do double duty as WNBA player/Univ. Minnesota coach. USA TODAY. 2018-04-20. en.
4. Web site: 2017–2018 Schedule. GOPHERSPORTS.COM. 2017-11-27. 2017-11-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114413/http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/sched/minn-w-baskbl-sched.html. dead.