The 2016–17 Wichita State Shockers women's basketball team represented Wichita State University in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.

They played their home games at Charles Koch Arena, which has a capacity of 10,506.

The Shockers, led by ninth year head coach Jody Adams-Birch through January 18 and then Linda Hargrove as interim head coach for the remainder of the season, are members of the Missouri Valley Conference.

They advanced to the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley women's tournament, where they lost to Drake.

This was the Shockers' final season as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference as the school announced on April 7, 2017 that it would be joining the American Athletic Conference effective July 1, 2017.