The 2015–16 Texas Longhorns women's basketball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2015–16 college basketball season. It was head coach Karen Aston's fourth season at Texas. The Longhorns were members of the Big 12 Conference and played their home games at the Frank Erwin Center. They finished the season 31–5, 15–3 in Big 12 play to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament, where they lost to Baylor. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament, where they defeated Alabama State and Missouri in the first and second rounds, and UCLA in the sweet sixteen, before last year's sweet sixteen rematch with Connecticut in the elite eight.
Rankings
+ Regular season pollsPoll Pre-season Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Week17 Week18 Week19 Final AP 12 11 8 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 6 6 6 6 8 8 6 7 7 N/A Coaches 11 8 8 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 6 6 6 5 7 8 7 7 7 7 + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received votes
2015–16 media
Television and radio information Most University of Texas home games were shown on the Longhorn Network, with national telecasts on the Big 12 Conference's television partners. On the radio, women's basketball games aired on KTXX-HD4 "105.3 The Bat", with select games on KTXX-FM 104.9. This was the first year that radio broadcasts had moved from KVET (1300 AM/103.1 FM).
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=12 style="background:#CC5500; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#CC5500; color:#FFFFFF;"| Big 12 regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#CC5500; color:#FFFFFF;"| 2016 Big 12 women's basketball tournament
!colspan=12 style="background:#CC5500; color:#FFFFFF;"| NCAA women's tournament
See also Texas Longhorns women's basketball 2015–16 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team
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