The Thundering Herd, led by first-year head coach Kim Caldwell, played their home games at Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, West Virginia as members of the Sun Belt Conference.

In the Sun Belt tournament, they defeated Appalachian State, Old Dominion and James Madison to become champions.

They received the Sun Belt's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where, as a No.

Marshall hired Transylvania University head coach Juli Fulks as her replacement.

They lost to James Madison in the conference tournament quarterfinals and did not advance to postseason play.