The 2017–18 Kent State Golden Flashes women's basketball team represented Kent State University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.

The Golden Flashes, led by second-year head coach Todd Starkey, played their home games at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center, also known as the MAC Center, as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

They advanced to the quarterfinals of the MAC women's tournament where they lost to Buffalo.

The Flashes finished the 2016–17 regular season with a 19–11 overall record, and 13–5 in MAC play.

They won their first East Division title since 2005, clinching a share on March 1 and winning it outright on March 4.