The 2017–18 UMass Lowell River Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Massachusetts Lowell during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The River Hawks are led by fourth year head coach Jenerrie Harris and will once again play most their home games in the Costello Athletic Center while select games will be played in the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell and were members of the America East Conference. They finished the season 4–26, 1–15 in America East play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the America East women's tournament to UMBC.