[10] The next season, the team continued to improve, again winning over 20 games and making the WNIT tournament for 2007.

The Cowgirls made it to the championship game and defeated Wisconsin 72–56 to win the tournament in front of a record crowd of 15,462 in the Arena-Auditorium.

The Cowgirls continued to see improving results, finishing 24–7 and earning the program's first berth into the NCAA tournament, although the team lost in the first round to Pittsburgh.

On May 7, 2019, longtime Cowgirl assistant Gerald Mattinson was named the seventh head coach in program history.

[14] In Mattinson's first season as the head coach, the Cowgirls went 17–12, and reached the semifinals of the Mountain West tournament.