2015–16 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team

Intercollegiate basketball season March 2026 August 2023 Women's basketball 2015–16 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois Fighting Illini logo.svg 150px Big Ten Conference B1G 9–21 2–16 Matt Bollant 4th LaKale Malone Tianna Kirkland Jody Martinez State Farm CenterParkland College The 2015–16 Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Fighting Illini, led by fourth year head coach Matt Bollant, played their home games at the State Farm Center and are members of the Big Ten Conference. In November 2015, Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois will host Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball for five games while renovations to the State Farm Center was completed. They finished the season 9–21, 2–16 in Big Ten play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the Big Ten women's tournament to Penn State. Roster w 2015 Illinois Fighting Illini y y w Sarah Hartwell 0 G 5 10 SR y Tacoma, WA Bellarmine PrepGeorgia Tech w Simone Law 4 F 6 0 SR y South Holland, IL LoyolaLoyola–Chicago w Cierra Rice 5 G 5 9 FR Grosse Pointe, MI Grosse Point South w Ashley McConnell 12 G 5 9 JR Palatine, IL Fremd w Mikaala Shackelford 13 G/F 5 10 SO y Plymouth, MN Hopkins w Kyley Simmons 15 G 5 7 SR y Council Bluffs, IA Lewis Central w Brooke Kissinger 21 G 5 7 SO Minden, NE Minden w Jaelyne Kirkpatrick 23 G 5 7 FR Oakville, ON St. Ignatius of Loyola w Kennedy Cattenhead 25 G 5 10 SO y Bolingbrook, IL Bolingbrook w Chatrice White 32 C 6 3 SO Shelby, NE Shelby w Alex Wittinger 35 F 6 1 FR Delano, MN Delano Matt Bollant (Winona State) LaKale Malone (Indiana) Tianna Kirkland (Bethel (IN)) Jody Martinez (Ferris State) http://www.fightingillini.com/roster.aspx?path=wbball Schedule http://www.fightingillini.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball 2021-22 Women's Basketball Schedule yes 2015-16 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings 2015 yes yes |- !colspan=9 style="background:#FF6600; color:#003C7D;"| Exhibition 11/07/2015 2:00 pm yes Indianapolis Parkland College Champaign, IL   95–36 |- !colspan=9 style="background:#FF6600; color:#003C7D;"| Non-conference regular season 11/13/2015 7:00 pm yes Chicago State Parkland College Champaign, IL 1,001 67–36 1–0 11/15/2015 2:00 pm yes Ohio Parkland College Champaign, IL 983 62–53 2–0 11/21/2015 2:00 pm yes Tennessee–Martin Parkland College Champaign, IL 907 94–74 3–0 11/24/2015 7:00 pm yes Tennessee State Parkland College Champaign, IL 952 98–43 4–0 12/02/2015 6:00 pm yes yes Miami (FL) BankUnited Center Coral Gables, FL ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge 910 ESPN3 64–73 4–1 12/06/2015 2:00 pm yes Lehigh State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,800 76–67 5–1 12/08/2015 7:00 pm yes Southern Illinois State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,317 78–64 6–1 12/12/2015 7:00 pm yes Central Michigan State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,557 74–69 7–1 12/19/2015 2:00 pm yes yes Memphis Elma Roane Fieldhouse Memphis, TN 593 75–81 7–2 12/22/2015 7:00 pm yes South Dakota State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,573 76–85 7–3 12/28/2015 2:00 pm yes George Washington State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,514 57–70 7–4 |- !colspan=9 style="background:#FF6600; color:#003C7D;"| Big Ten regular season 12/31/2015 2:00 pm Maryland 6 State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,716 63–79 7–5 (0–1) 01/03/2016 1:00 pm yes Purdue Mackey Arena West Lafayette, IN 6,374 65–69 7–6 (0–2) 01/07/2016 8:00 pm Minnesota State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,263 BTN 75–106 7–7 (0–3) 01/10/2016 2:00 pm yes Nebraska Pinnacle Bank Arena Lincoln, NE 6,222 57–73 7–8 (0–4) 01/13/2016 6:00 pm yes Rutgers Louis Brown Athletic Center Piscataway, NJ 1,829 54–67 7–9 (0–5) 01/17/2016 2:00 pm Wisconsin State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,857 71–65 8–9 (1–5) 01/20/2016 6:00 pm yes Indiana Assembly Hall Bloomington, IN 2,202 66–68 8–10 (1–6) 01/23/2016 2:00 pm Penn State State Farm Center Champaign, IL 3,776 56–65 8–11 (1–7) 01/26/2016 8:00 pm yes Minnesota Williams Arena Minneapolis, MN 2,618 BTN 77–82 8–12 (1–8) 02/01/2016 6:00 pm Ohio State 7 State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,517 BTN 70–80 8–13 (1–9) 02/04/2016 7:00 pm Northwestern State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,331 69–79 8–14 (1–10) 02/07/2016 1:00 pm yes Michigan Crisler Center Ann Arbor, MI 2,509 83–96 8–15 (1–11) 02/10/2016 7:00 pm Indiana State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,622 68–80 8–16 (1–12) 02/13/2016 5:00 pm Rutgers State Farm Center Champaign, IL 2,450 BTN 56–63 8–17 (1–13) 02/17/2016 7:00 pm yes Wisconsin Kohl Center Madison, WI 3,448 76–56 9–17 (2–13) 02/21/2016 1:00 pm yes Ohio State 5 Value City Arena Columbus, OH 8,247 74–117 9–18 (2–14) 02/24/2016 7:00 pm Michigan State 20 State Farm Center Champaign, IL 1,395 43–71 9–19 (2–15) 02/27/2016 5:00 pm yes Iowa Carver–Hawkeye Arena Ann Arbor, MI 4,610 BTN 56–61 9–20 (2–16) |- !colspan=9 style="background:#FF6600;"| Big Ten Women's Tournament 03/02/2016 3:00 pm yes Penn State Bankers Life Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN First Round   BTN 66–75 9–21 AP Poll Central Time See also 2015–16 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team References Category:Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball seasons Illinois Fight Fight