2015–16 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team

American college basketball season March 2026 August 2023 Basketball 2015–16 Oregon Ducks Oregon Ducks logo.svg 150 Pac-12 Conference Pac-12 Conference men's basketball Pac-12 6 5 31–7 14–4 Dana Altman 6th Kevin McKenna Tony Stubblefield Mike Mennenga Matthew Knight Arena Pac-12 regular season & tournament champions NCAA tournament Elite Eight The 2015–16 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ducks were led by sixth-year head coach Dana Altman. They played their home games at Matthew Knight Arena and were members of the Pac–12 Conference. They finished the season 31–7, 14–4 in Pac-12 play to win the Pac-12 regular season championship. They defeated Washington, Arizona and Utah to be champions of the Pac-12 tournament. They received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, where they defeated Holy Cross, Saint Joseph's, and Duke to advance to the Elite Eight, where they lost to Oklahoma. Previous season The 2014–15 Oregon Ducks finished the season with an overall record of 26–10, and 13–5 in the Pac-12. In the Pac–12 Tournament, the Ducks made it to the championship game, where they lost to Arizona, 80–52. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as an 8-seed in the West Region. They defeated Oklahoma State in the second round before losing to Wisconsin in the round of 32.Alger Tyson No. 1 Wisconsin holds off No. 8 Oregon Ducks, 72-65: NCAA Tournament live chat recap http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2015/03/no_8_oregon_hopes_to_pull_off.html The Oregonian/OregonLive Oregon Live LLC. 27 March 2015 Off-season Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Joe Young 3 G 6'2" 180 RS senior Houston, TX Graduated/2015 NBA draft Ahmaad Rorie 14 G 6'1" 175 Freshman Tacoma, WA Transferred to Montana Jalil Abdul-Bassit 15 G 6'4" 197 Senior Anchorage, AK Graduated Michael Chandler 25 C 6'10" 240 Junior Indianapolis, IN Transferred to Waldorf College Tim Jensen 32 F 6'6" 225 RS senior Manistee, MI Graduated Anthony Piganelli 35 G 6'4" 195 Senior Oakland, CA Graduated Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Chris Boucher 25 F 6'10" 200 Junior Montreal, Quebec National Junior College Player of the Year at Northwest College Dylan Ennis 31 G 6'2" 192 RS senior Brampton, Ontario Elected to transfer from Villanova. Ennis was eligible to play immediately. 2015 recruiting class no no 2015 Kendall Small PG Anaheim, CA Mayfair HS 6 0 170 04/29/2014 4 4 4 4 Trevor Manuel PF Lansing, MI Everett HS 6 9 200 09/11/2014 4 3 4 4 Tyler Dorsey SG Pasadena, CA Maranatha HS 6 4 180 02/02/2015 4 5 5 4 2015 2015 Player Commits 2483 February 14, 2015 yes Roster 2015 Oregon Ducks y Dwayne Benjamin basketball y 0 F 6 7 210 SR Lafayette, Louisiana Jordan Bell y 1 F 6 9 225 SO Long Beach, California Casey Benson 2 G 6 3 185 SO Tempe, Arizona Max Heller 4 G 5 11 170 SR yes Del Mar, California Tyler Dorsey y 5 G 6 4 180 FR Pasadena, California Charlie Noebel 10 G 6 2 178 JR Irvine, California W Phil Richmond 11 G 6 4 190 JR yes Calabasas, California W Kendall Small 21 G 6 0 175 FR Anaheim, California Elgin Cook y 23 F 6 6 205 SR yes Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dillon Brooks y 24 F 6 6 225 SO Mississauga, Ontario Chris Boucher y basketball 25 F 6 10 190 JR Montreal, Quebec Dylan Ennis y 31 G 6 2 195 SR yes Brampton, Ontario y Roman Sorkin y 41 F 6 10 225 SO Ashdod, Israel Dana Altman (East New Mexico) Kevin McKenna (Creighton) Tony Stubblefield (Nebraska-Omaha) Mike Mennenga (Morehead State) http://www.goducks.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&SPID=235&SPSID=4295 February 8, 2016 Roster notes January 5, 2016 – Freshman Trevor Manuel asked for release and would transfer.Moran Danny Trevor Manuel intends to transfer from Oregon Ducks http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2016/01/trevor_manuel_intends_to_trans.html OregonLive.com 9 February 2016 January 6, 2016 – Redshirt Senior Dylan Ennis would miss the rest of the season due to a foot injury.Alger Tyson Dylan Ennis, Oregon Ducks point guard, out for season with foot injury http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2016/01/dylan_ennis_oregon_ducks_point.html OregonLive.com 9 February 2016 March 16, 2016 – Oregon announced that the NCAA had awarded senior Chris Boucher an extra year of eligibility. In the Quebec educational system, students complete high school a year earlier than in the rest of North America, and normally attend a pre-university school known as a CEGEP. After Boucher's final year of high school in 2010–11, he did not academically qualify for CEGEP, and was out of school in 2011–12 before attending a prep school in Alma, Quebec for 2012–13 and playing 13 games in that season (considerably fewer that a typical U.S. prep school schedule). The NCAA initially treated the end of his final year of high school as his graduation date and his prep school year as his first year of college competition. Oregon applied for a waiver from the NCAA, citing serious family hardship during Boucher's high school years, the abbreviated nature of his prep school basketball season, and his satisfactory academic progress at Oregon.https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/pac12/2016/02/23/oregon-basketball-chris-boucher-shot-block-forward-ncaa-tournament/80723526/ Basketball gives Oregon's Chris Boucher a shot at life Daniel Uthman USA Today February 24, 2016 March 17, 2016https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/oregon-s-chris-boucher-awarded-extra-year-of-eligibility-212400871.html Oregon's Chris Boucher awarded extra year of eligibility Sam Cooper The Dagger Yahoo! Sports March 16, 2016 March 17, 2016 Schedule 2015-16 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings 2015 yes yes |- !colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Exhibition Nov. 3 7:00 pm yes Northwest Christian Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 92–44 5,499 – Nov. 8 6:00 pm yes Southern Oregon Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 91–40 5,623 – |- !colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Non-conference regular season Nov. 13 7:00 pm yes Jackson State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR Global Sports Shootout P12N 80–52 5,577 1–0 Nov. 16 8:30 pm yes 25 Baylor 20 Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon/Global Sports Shootout ESPN2 74–67 7,718 2–0 Nov. 20 8:00 pm yes 25 Savannah State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR Global Sports Shootout P12N 77–59 6,465 3–0 Nov. 22 3:00 pm yes 25 Valparaiso Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 73–67 5,752 4–0 Nov. 25 4:00 pm yes 21 Arkansas State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR Global Sports Shootout P12N 91–68 5,465 5–0 Nov. 30 5:00 pm yes 15 Fresno State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 78–73 5,205 6–0 Dec. 4 8:00 pm yes yes 15 UNLV MGM Grand Garden Arena Paradise, NV MGM Grand Showcase ESPN2 69–80 12,117 6–1 Dec. 7 6:30 pm yes yes 24 Navy Bloch Arena Honolulu, HI Pearl Harbor Classic FS1 67–47 4,024 7–1 Dec. 12 4:00 pm yes yes 24 Boise State Taco Bell Arena Boise, ID CBSSN 72–74 10,239 7–2 Dec. 15 8:00 pm yes UC Irvine Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 78–63 5,863 8–2 Dec. 18 6:00 pm yes Long Beach State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 94–73 6,112 9–2 Dec. 21 6:00 pm yes yes Alabama BJCC Birmingham, AL Vulcan Classic ESPNU 72–68 14,508 10–2 Dec. 29 6:00 pm yes Western Oregon Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 88–60 6,137 11–2 |- !colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Pac-12 regular season Jan. 3 4:00 pm yes Oregon State Gill Coliseum Corvallis, OR Civil War FS1 57–70 9,604 11–3 0–1 Jan. 6 6:00 pm California Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR ESPN2 68–65 6,948 12–3 1–1 Jan. 10 7:00 pm Stanford Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR ESPNU 71–58 7,318 13–3 2–1 Jan. 14 7:00 pm yes Utah Jon M. Huntsman Center Salt Lake City, UT P12N 77–59 12,733 14–3 3–1 Jan. 17 4:00 pm yes Colorado Coors Events Center Boulder, CO P12N 87–91 8,459 14–4 3–2 Jan. 21 6:00 pm USC 21 Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 89–81 8,471 15–4 4–2 Jan. 23 1:00 pm UCLA Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR CBS 86–72 10,525 16–4 5–2 Jan. 28 8:00 pm yes 23 Arizona 18 McKale Center Tucson, AZ ESPN2 83–75 14,644 17–4 6–2 Jan. 31 5:30 pm yes 23 Arizona State Wells Fargo Arena Tempe, AZ ESPNU 91–74 6,760 18–4 7–2 Feb. 4 6:00 pm 16 Colorado Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR FS1 76–56 7,226 19–4 8–2 Feb. 7 1:00 pm 16 Utah Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR ESPN2 76–66 6,807 20–4 9–2 Feb. 11 6:00 pm yes 11 California Haas Pavilion Berkeley, CA ESPN2 63–83 10,628 20–5 9–3 Feb. 13 1:00 pm yes 11 Stanford Maples Pavilion Stanford, CA P12N 72–76 5,462 20–6 9–4 Feb. 20 7:00 pm 16 Oregon State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR Civil War P12N 91–81 12,364 21–6 10–4 Feb. 24 7:00 pm 13 Washington State Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR P12N 76–62 8,088 22–6 11–4 Feb. 28 5:30 pm 13 Washington Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR ESPNU 86–73 12,364 23–6 12–4 Mar. 2 6:00 pm yes 9 UCLA Pauley Pavilion Los Angeles, CA ESPN2 76–68 6,578 24–6 13–4 Mar. 5 1:00 pm yes 9 USC Galen Center Los Angeles, CA P12N 76–66 6,834 25–6 14–4 |- !colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Pac-12 tournament Mar. 10 12:00 pm yes 1 8 Washington 8 MGM Grand Garden Arena Paradise, NV Quarterfinals P12N 83–77 12,916 26–6 Mar. 11 6:00 pm yes 8 1 Arizona 15 4 MGM Grand Garden Arena Paradise, NV Semifinals P12N 95–89 OT 12,916 27–6 Mar. 12 7:00 pm yes 8 1 Utah 12 2 MGM Grand Garden Arena Paradise, NV Championship FS1 88–57 12,916 28–6 |- !colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| NCAA tournament Mar. 18 4:27 pm yes yes 5 1 W Holy Cross 16 W Spokane Arena Spokane, WA First Round truTV 91–52 11,274 29–6 Mar. 20 6:40 pm yes yes 5 1 W Saint Joseph's 8 W Spokane Arena Spokane, WA Second Round TBS 69–64 11,296 30–6 Mar. 24 6:55 pm yes yes 5 1 W Duke 19 4 W Honda Center Anaheim, CA Sweet Sixteen TBS 82–68 17,601 31–6 Mar. 26 3:09 pm yes yes 5 1 W Oklahoma 7 2 W Honda Center Anaheim, CA Elite Eight CBS 68–80 16,232 31–7 Pacific Time W West Region AP Poll Ranking movement 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings + Ranking movementLegend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. 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