# 2015–16 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team

The 2015–16 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team represented Oregon State University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Beavers, led by sixth year head coach Scott Rueck, played their games at the Gill Coliseum and are members of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished the season 32–5, 16–2 in Pac-12 play to share the Pac-12 regular season title with Arizona State. They won the Pac-12 women's tournament for the first time in school history and received an automatic bid of the NCAA women's tournament where they defeated Troy and St. Bonaventure in the first and second rounds, DePaul in the Sweet Sixteen and Baylor in the Elite Eight to reach the Final Four for the first time school history. They lost to eventual winner Connecticut in the Final Four. With 32 wins in the regular season, they ended the season with the most wins in program history.

## Rankings

Legend :
| | Increase in ranking |
| | Decrease in ranking |
| | Not ranked previous week |
| (RV) | Received Votes |

## Schedule

| Date time, TV | Rank$^#$ | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Exhibition ||||||
| 11/08/2015* 3:00 pm | No. 10 | Corban | W 98–48 | | Gill Coliseum (2,508) Corvallis, OR |
| Non-conference regular season ||||||
| 11/13/2015* 7:00 pm | No. 10 | Longwood | W 110–45 | 1–0 | Gill Coliseum (2,651) Corvallis, OR |
| 11/16/2015* 7:00 pm, TheW.tv | No. 9 | at Portland | W 94–50 | 2–0 | Chiles Center (903) Portland, OR |
| 11/22/2015* 2:00 pm | No. 9 | UC Riverside | W 86–65 | 3–0 | Gill Coliseum (2,707) Corvallis, OR |
| 11/27/2015* 10:15 am | No. 7 | vs. Hofstra San Juan Shootout | W 73–50 | 4–0 | Mario Morales Coliseum Guaynabo, PR |
| 11/28/2015* 12:30 pm | No. 7 | vs. Arkansas San Juan Shootout | W 63–47 | 5–0 | Mario Morales Coliseum Guaynabo, PR |
| 12/03/2015* 4:00 pm, FS1 | No. 7 | at Marquette | W 65–58 | 6–0 | Al McGuire Center (1,258) Milwaukee, WI |
| 12/12/2015* 2:00 pm | No. 7 | Idaho | W 69–44 | 7–0 | Gill Coliseum (2,834) Corvallis, OR |
| 12/15/2015* 11:00 am | No. 7 | Cal State Bakersfield | W 75–51 | 8–0 | Gill Coliseum (7,824) Corvallis, OR |
| 12/19/2015* 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 7 | No. 14 Tennessee | L 50–53 | 8–1 | Gill Coliseum (8,223) Corvallis, OR |
| 12/21/2015* 3:00 pm | No. 11 | Cal Poly | W 80–43 | 9–1 | Gill Coliseum (2,716) Corvallis, OR |
| 12/28/2015* 4:00 pm, ESPN3 | No. 10 | at No. 3 Notre Dame | L 61–62 | 9–2 | Edmund P. Joyce Center (8,860) South Bend, IN |
| Pac-12 regular season ||||||
| 01/02/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 10 | at USC | W 57–49 | 10–2 (1–0) | Galen Center (498) Los Angeles, CA |
| 01/04/2016 7:00 pm, P12N | No. 11 | at No. 15 UCLA | L 51–71 | 10–3 (1–1) | Pauley Pavilion (1,161) Los Angeles, CA |
| 01/08/2016 7:00 pm, P12N | No. 11 | Oregon Civil War | W 60–33 | 11–3 (2–1) | Gill Coliseum (4,462) Corvallis, OR |
| 01/10/2016 12:00 pm, P12N | No. 11 | at Oregon Civil War | W 59–45 | 12–3 (3–1) | Matthew Knight Arena (2,806) Eugene, OR |
| 01/15/2016 8:00 pm, P12N | No. 12 | California | W 70–48 | 13–3 (4–1) | Gill Coliseum (2,891) Corvallis, OR |
| 01/17/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 12 | No. 11 Stanford | W 58–50 | 14–3 (5–1) | Gill Coliseum (4,314) Corvallis, OR |
| 01/22/2016 7:00 pm, P12N | No. 11 | at Utah | W 62–53 | 15–3 (6–1) | Jon M. Huntsman Center (1,761) Salt Lake City, UT |
| 01/24/2016 2:00 pm, P12N | No. 11 | at Colorado | W 61–47 | 16–3 (7–1) | Coors Events Center (1,711) Boulder, CO |
| 01/29/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 9 | Arizona | W 71–43 | 17–3 (8–1) | Gill Coliseum (3,402) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/01/2016 8:00 pm, ESPN2 | No. 9 | No. 8 Arizona State | W 67–44 | 18–3 (9–1) | Gill Coliseum (4,427) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/05/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 9 | at No. 24 Washington | W 61–53 | 19–3 (10–1) | Alaska Airlines Arena (3,813) Seattle, WA |
| 02/07/2016 11:00 am | No. 9 | at Washington State | W 54–45 | 20–3 (11–1) | Beasley Coliseum (687) Pullman, WA |
| 02/12/2016 7:30 pm, P12N | No. 8 | Colorado | W 73–50 | 21–3 (12–1) | Gill Coliseum (3,677) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/14/2016 1:00 pm | No. 8 | Utah | W 72–53 | 22–3 (13–1) | Gill Coliseum (4,278) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/19/2016 8:00 pm, P12N | No. 7 | USC | W 76–52 | 23–3 (14–1) | Gill Coliseum (3,615) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/21/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | No. 7 | No. 12 UCLA | W 64–54 | 24–3 (15–1) | Gill Coliseum (5,654) Corvallis, OR |
| 02/26/2016 8:00 pm, P12N | No. 7 | at No. 13 Stanford | L 54–76 | 24–4 (15–2) | Maples Pavilion (3,613) Stanford, CA |
| 02/28/2016 11:00 am, P12N | No. 7 | at California | W 54–44 | 25–4 (16–2) | Haas Pavilion (2,036) Berkeley, CA |
| Pac-12 Women's Tournament ||||||
| 03/04/2016 6:00 pm, P12N | (1) No. 8 | vs. (8) USC Quarterfinals | W 63–53 | 26–4 | KeyArena Seattle, WA |
| 03/05/2016 8:30 pm, P12N | (1) No. 8 | vs. (5) Washington Semifinals | W 57–55 | 27–4 | KeyArena (6,543) Seattle, WA |
| 03/06/2016 6:00 pm, ESPN | (1) No. 8 | vs. (3) No. 12 UCLA Championship Game | W 69–57 | 28–4 | KeyArena (4,759) Seattle, WA |
| NCAA Women's Tournament ||||||
| 03/18/2016* 2:00 pm, ESPN2 | (2 D) No. 6 | (15 D) Troy First Round | W 73–31 | 29–4 | Gill Coliseum (4,702) Corvallis, OR |
| 03/20/2016* 6:00 pm, ESPN2 | (2 D) No. 6 | (10 D) St. Bonaventure Second Round | W 69–40 | 30–4 | Gill Coliseum (6,074) Corvallis, OR |
| 03/26/2016* 3:00 pm, ESPN | (2 D) No. 6 | vs. (6 D) No. 20 DePaul Sweet Sixteen | W 83–71 | 31–4 | American Airlines Center (7,109) Dallas, TX |
| 03/28/2016* 6:00 pm, ESPN | (2 D) No. 6 | vs. (1 D) No. 4 Baylor Elite Eight | W 60–57 | 32–4 | American Airlines Center (6,050) Dallas, TX |
| 04/03/2016* 3:00 pm, ESPN | (2 D) No. 6 | vs. (1 B) No. 1 Connecticut Final Four | L 51–80 | 32–5 | Bankers Life Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. D=Dallas Region. All times are in Pacific Time. ||||||