| Gender: | women |
| Type: | Olympics |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Size: | 150 |
| Dates: | 19–29 September 1988 |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Games: | 20 |
| Federations: | 4 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | USA |
| Title Number: | 2 |
| Ppg P: | Slavcheva (19.6) |
| Ppg T: | (92.2) |
| Rpg P: |  McClain (10.4) |
| Rpg T: | (35.6) |
| Apg P: | Edwards,  Maher (3.4) |
| Apg T: | (12.0) |
| Prevseason: | Los Angeles 1984 |
| Nextseason: | Barcelona 1992 |
See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The women's tournament in basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul began on 19 September and ended on 29 September.
The United States won their second gold medal (and second consecutive gold medal) after defeating Yugoslavia, 77–70, in the gold medal match.
| Mon 19 | Tue 20 | Wed 21 | Thu 22 | Fri 23 | Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | |||||||
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A NOC could enter one women's team with 12 players. Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the winners from the previous edition. The remaining teams were decided by a tournament held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where the top six teams earned a spot.
| width=13% | Asia ! | width=13% | Europe ! | width=13% | Oceania ! | width=26% | Automatic qualifiers |
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| – Olympic Champions – Olympic hosts |
See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters. Each NOC was limited to one team per tournament. Each team had a roster of twelve players.
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5th–8th Place
Classification 5–8 semifinalsClassification 7–8Classification 5–6
Rankings are determined by classification games:
| Rank | Women | ||||||
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| width=150px | Team ! | width=20px | Pld ! | width=20px | W ! | width=20px | L |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| 4th | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Eliminated in the group round | |||||||
| 5th | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 6th | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 7th | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 8th | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||