2023–24 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs women's basketball team

The 2023–24 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs women's basketball team represented Gardner–Webb University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Runnin' Bulldogs, were led by first-year head coach Scott Merritt, played their home games at Paul Porter Arena in Boiling Springs, North Carolina as members of the Big South Conference.

Previous season
The Runnin' Bulldogs finished the 2022–23 season 29–5, 18–0 in Big South play, to finish as Big South regular season champions. In the Big South tournament, they defeated UNC Asheville, Radford, and High Point to win the Big South tournament championship and earning the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. They received the #15 seed in the Greenville Regional 2. They would end up losing to #2 region seed Utah in the first round.

On April 6, head coach Alex Simmons announced that she would be stepping down, after 5 seasons at the helm, in order to take the head coaching position at Memphis. On April 22, the school named Wisconsin associate head coach Scott Merritt the team's next head coach.

Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=| Big South regular season

!colspan=12 style=|Big South tournament



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