# 2015–16 Virginia Tech Hokies women's basketball team

The 2015–16 Virginia Tech Hokies women's basketball team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 2015–16 college basketball season. The Hokies, led by fifth year head coach Dennis Wolff, were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference and played their home games at the Cassell Coliseum. They finished the season 18–14, 5–11 in ACC play to finish in eleventh place. They lost in the first round of the ACC women's tournament to Boston College. They were invited to the Women's National Invitation Tournament, where they defeated Elon in the first round before losing to Ohio in the second round.
On March 22, 2016, the school fired head coach Dennis Wolff. He finished at Virginia Tech with a 5 year record of 62–93.

## 2015–16 media
### Virginia Tech Hokies Sports Network

The Virginia Tech Hokies IMG Sports Network broadcast Hokies games on WNMX. Andrew Allegretta provided the call for the games and for select ESPN3 games. All WNMX games and games not on WNMX could be heard online through HokiesXtra.

## Schedule

| Date time, TV | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Non-conference regular season ||||||
| 11/13/2015* 7:00 pm | Presbyterian | W 58–44 | 1–0 | Cassell Coliseum (1,611) Blacksburg, VA |
| 11/15/2015* 5:00 pm | George Mason | W 80–63 | 2–0 | Cassell Coliseum (1,172) Blacksburg, VA |
| 11/18/2015* 7:00 pm | at Georgetown | L 56–73 | 2–1 | McDonough Gymnasium (781) Washington, D.C. |
| 11/20/2015* 5:00 pm | Providence | W 62–46 | 3–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,253) Blacksburg, VA |
| 11/22/2015* 5:00 pm | College of Charleston | W 81–47 | 4–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,136) Blacksburg, VA |
| 11/25/2015* 7:00 pm | Wofford | W 73–42 | 5–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,077) Blacksburg, VA |
| 12/03/2015* 8:00 pm, BTN | at Penn State ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge | W 64–59 | 6–1 | Bryce Jordan Center (2,897) University Park, PA |
| 12/06/2015* 2:00 pm, SECN | at No. 8 Tennessee | W 57–43 | 7–1 | Thompson–Boling Arena (9,431) Knoxville, TN |
| 12/09/2015* 7:00 pm | Morgan State | W 77–33 | 8–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,004) Blacksburg, VA |
| 12/13/2015* 12:00 pm | Coppin State | W 72–39 | 9–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,093) Blacksburg, VA |
| 12/19/2015* 3:00 pm | Mount St. Mary's | W 59–42 | 10–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,239) Blacksburg, VA |
| 12/21/2015* 1:00 pm | Radford | W 47–40 | 11–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,547) Blacksburg, VA |
| 12/30/2015* 3:00 pm | Furman | W 59–30 | 12–1 | Cassell Coliseum (1,415) Blacksburg, VA |
| ACC regular season ||||||
| 01/03/2016 2:00 pm | Boston College | W 58–33 | 13–1 (1–0) | Cassell Coliseum (1,433) Blacksburg, VA |
| 01/07/2016 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Louisville | L 45–56 | 13–2 (1–1) | KFC Yum! Center (7,891) Louisville, KY |
| 01/10/2016 2:00 pm | at Syracuse | L 39–60 | 13–3 (1–2) | Carrier Dome (1,961) Syracuse, NY |
| 01/18/2016 7:00 pm, RSN | Clemson | W 79–49 | 14–3 (2–2) | Cassell Coliseum (1,565) Blacksburg, VA |
| 01/21/2016 7:00 pm, RSN | NC State | L 61–72 | 14–4 (2–3) | Cassell Coliseum (1,475) Blacksburg, VA |
| 01/24/2016 1:00 pm | at No. 3 Notre Dame | L 41–80 | 14–5 (2–4) | Edmund P. Joyce Center (8,958) South Bend, IN |
| 01/28/2016 7:00 pm | No. 17 Miami (FL) | L 45–57 | 14–6 (2–5) | Cassell Coliseum (1,447) Blacksburg, VA |
| 01/31/2016 2:00 pm | at Florida State | L 50–68 | 14–7 (2–6) | Donald L. Tucker Civic Center (3,017) Tallahassee, FL |
| 02/04/2016 7:00 pm | Georgia Tech | L 34–51 | 14–8 (2–7) | Cassell Coliseum (1,818) Blacksburg, VA |
| 02/07/2016 2:00 pm | at Virginia Commonwealth Classic | W 66–46 | 15–8 (3–7) | John Paul Jones Arena (4,052) Charlottesville, VA |
| 02/11/2016 7:00 pm | at North Carolina | L 67–71 | 15–9 (3–8) | Carmichael Arena (1,752) Chapel Hill, NC |
| 02/14/2016 2:00 pm | Pittsburgh | L 48–59 | 15–10 (3–9) | Cassell Coliseum (2,143) Blacksburg, VA |
| 02/18/2016 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Duke | L 62–66 | 15–11 (3–10) | Cassell Coliseum (1,264) Blacksburg, VA |
| 02/21/2016 4:00 pm, ESPN3 | at No. 18 Miami (FL) | L 56–67 $^{OT}$ | 15–12 (3–11) | BankUnited Center (2,180) Coral Gables, FL |
| 02/25/2016 7:00 pm | Wake Forest | W 54–48 | 16–12 (4–11) | LJVM Coliseum (679) Winston-Salem, NC |
| 02/28/2016 2:00 pm, ESPN3 | Virginia Commonwealth Classic | W 60–55 | 17–12 (5–11) | Cassell Coliseum (2,710) Blacksburg, VA |
| ACC Women's Tournament ||||||
| 03/02/2016 6:30 pm, RSN | vs. Boston College First Round | L 37–49 | 17–13 | Greensboro Coliseum (1,123) Greensboro, NC |
| WNIT ||||||
| 03/17/2016* 7:00 pm | Elon First Round | W 68–59 | 18–13 | Cassell Coliseum (657) Blacksburg, VA |
| 03/20/2016* 2:00 pm | at Ohio Second Round | L 57–64 | 18–14 | Convention Center (1,131) Athens, OH |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern. ||||||

## Rankings

2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
Legend :
| | Increase in ranking |
| | Decrease in ranking |
| | Not ranked previous week |
| (RV) | Received Votes |