The school's team currently competes in the Big West Conference, which they have played in since 1996, two years after joining Division I.

Following Sharon Chatman (1974–75) and Mary Stallard (1975–79), McNeil coached Cal Poly from 1979 to 1986 before becoming an athletics administrator on campus.

In 1994, McNeil departed Cal Poly to become the athletic director at Monmouth University,[2] from which she retired in 2021.

[6] The furthest the team has advanced came in March 2013,[7] when Cal Poly defeated Pacific 63–49 to win the Big West Conference women's basketball tournament, their first conference tournament championship[8] after two previous years of regular-season titles.

[12] The team has made four WNIT appearances, losing to California (Berkeley) in 2011,[13] Washington in 2012,[14] San Diego in 2014,[15] and Pacific in 2024.