The UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).

The school competes in the Southland Conference (SLC), part of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), since the 2024–25 season.

[2] The Vaqueros play home basketball games at the UTRGV Fieldhouse on the university campus in Edinburg, Texas.

The Broncs began play in women's basketball in 1982 when the school was known as Pan American University.

The Broncs played their first three season as a NAIA Independent, with the first ever coach in school history being John McDowell.

Tony McDaniel coached the team for one season (1986–87), leading them to a 7–17 record.

In the final season for Hicks as coach, the Broncs went 10–18 and 2–14 in conference play.

On March 1, 2000, it was announced that Halligan would be reassigned within the Athletic Department, ending her tenure as coach.

She cited the loss of a radio contract to broadcast both men's and women's basketball games, the decision to cease providing scholarship benefits to incoming players to the program in the summer before their first year and aid to ensure graduation for fifth-year students, both factors that she thought were de-emphasizing the program.

[8] Larry Tidwell was hired to coach the team for the 2013–14 season, which was the first for the Broncs in Western Athletic Conference play.

In the 2015 WAC women's basketball tournament, they beat UMKC and Cal State Bakersfield to reach the Championship.

Despite the loss, the team qualified for the 2016 Women's National Invitation Tournament.

In the WAC Tournament, they advanced all the way to the Final for the third time in five years, although they once again lost to New Mexico State, doing so in double overtime 76–73.

The Vaqueros have appeared in the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) thrice.