The 2017–18 UCLA Bruins women's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.

The Bruins, led by seventh-year head coach Cori Close, played their home games at the Pauley Pavilion and were members of the Pac-12 Conference.

They advanced to the semifinals of the Pac-12 women's tournament where they lost to Oregon.

[2] They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament in which they defeated American[3] and Creighton[4] in the first and second rounds, respectively.

They went on to defeat Texas in the Sweet Sixteen and advance to the program's first Elite Eight since 1999.