The 2015–16 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Returning as head coach was Joanne P. McCallie entering her 9th season. The team played its home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 20–12, 8–8 in ACC play, to finish in a tie for seventh place. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACC women's tournament to Notre Dame. They missed the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994 and they were also not invited to the Women's National Invitation Tournament for the first time in 21 years due to a limited roster."Duke women’s basketball not in NCAA Tournament for 1st time in 21 years" in WNCN.com
2015–16 media All Blue Devils games aired on the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network. WDNC once again acted as the main station for the Blue Devils IMG Sports Network games with Steve Barnes providing the play-by-play and Morgan Patrick acting as analyst.
Roster
Schedule
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Regular Season
!colspan=12 style="background:#001A57;"| ACC Women's Tournament
Source
Rankings 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball 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 14 14 15 14 13 13 13 12 18 22 RV RV RV NR NR NR NR NR NR N/A Coaches 12 9 12 13 11 11 12 12 16 19 RV RV RV RV NR NR NR RV RV NR + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week (RV) Received Votes
See also 2015–16 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
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