2023–24 Rice Owls women's basketball team

The 2023–24 Rice Owls women's basketball team represented Rice University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Owls, led by third-year head coach Lindsay Edmonds, played their home games at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston, Texas as first year members of the American Athletic Conference.

Previous season
The Owls finished the 2022–23 season 23–9, 13–7 in C-USA play to finish in third place. As the #3 seed in the C-USA tournament and receiving a first-round bye, they were upset by #6 seed UTSA in the quarterfinals. They reieved an at-large bid into the WNIT, where they defeated BYU in the first round, before falling to Oregon in the second round. This was the Owls' final season as members of Conference USA, as they moved to the American Athletic Conference effective July 1, 2023.

Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=| Exhibition

!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=| AAC regular season

!colspan=12 style=|AAC tournament

!colspan=12 style=|NCAA Tournament

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