Sex: | women |
Year: | 2024–25 |
Prev: | 2023–24 |
Next Year: | 2025–26 |
Team: | South Dakota Coyotes |
Sport: | basketball |
Conference: | Summit League |
Short Conf: | Summit |
Record: | 1–4 |
Conf Record: | 0–0 |
Head Coach: | Carrie Eighmey |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Amber Cunningham |
Asst Coach2: | Chris Guess |
Asst Coach3: | Devin Eighmey |
Arena: | Sanford Coyote Sports Center |
The 2024–25 South Dakota Coyotes women's basketball team will represent the University of South Dakota in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Coyotes will be led by first-year head coach Carrie Eighmey, who was hired in April 2024 after former coach Kayla Karius left for the head coaching job at Green Bay. The Coyotes compete in the Summit League and play home games at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in Vermillion, South Dakota.
The Coyotes finished the 2023–24 season 23–13, 9–7 in Summit League play to finish in fourth place. In the Summit League tournament, the Coyotes defeated St. Thomas[1] in the quarterfinals but fell to South Dakota State in the semifinals.[2] After the conference tournament, South Dakota was invited to the 2024 Women's National Invitation Tournament and hosted two games.[3] The Coyotes defeated UC Riverside in the first round, and Northern Arizona in the second round, before falling to Wyoming in the Super 16.[4]
|-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| Summit League regular season[5] [6]