Youngstown State Penguins women's basketball

Youngstown State Penguins
Youngstown State Penguins
	2024–25 Youngstown State Penguins women's basketball team
University	Youngstown State University
Head coach	Melissa Jackson (1st season)
Conference	Horizon League
Location	Youngstown, Ohio
Arena	Beeghly Center ; (capacity: 6,300)
Nickname	Penguins
Student section	The Arctic
Colors	Red and white;
NCAA tournament round of 32
	1998
NCAA tournament appearances
	1996, 1998, 2000
Conference tournament champions
	1996, 1998, 2000
Conference regular season champions
	1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2022

The Youngstown State Penguins women's basketball team represents Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Horizon League.^[2] On March 14, 2024, Melissa Jackson was named the new head coach of Youngstown State University.^[3]

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The Penguins have made the NCAA Tournament three times (all coinciding with their Summit League tournament titles). Of the three, they have one postseason win, in 1998. As a 12 seed, they upset Memphis 91–80. They lost to North Carolina State 88–61 in the next round. As of the end of the 2015–16 season, Youngstown State has an all-time record of 568–546.^[4]

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Horizon League
Year	Overall Rec.	Conference Rec.
2006–07	7-21	5-12
2007–08	14-17	8-9
2008–09	3-27	1-17
2009–10	0-30	0-18
2010–11	6-24	4-14
2011–12	10-20	4-14
2012–13	23-10	11-5
2013–14	15-16	10-6
2014–15	21-11	9-7
2015–16	21-13	9-9
2016–17	9-21	5-13
2017–18	16-16	11-7
2018–19	22-10	13-5
2019–20	13-17	6-12
2020–21	10-8	9-7
2021–22	24-7	18-4
2022–23	19-11	13-7