The 2015–16 George Mason Patriots Men's basketball team represented George Mason University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was the 50th season for the program. The Patriots were led by Dave Paulsen in his first season as head coach of the program following Paul Hewitt's dismissal. They played their home games at EagleBank Arena and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 11–21, 5–13 in A-10 play to finish in a tie for 12th place. They lost to Saint Louis in the first round of the Atlantic 10 tournament.

Previous season The Patriots finished the season with an overall record of 9–22, with a record of 4–14 in the Atlantic 10 regular season for thirteenth-place finish. In the 2015 Atlantic 10 tournament, the Patriots were defeated by Fordham, 71–65 in the first round.

Offseason

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Vaughn Gray 1 F 6'5" 192 Senior Elmwood Park, NJ Graduated Patrick Holloway 3 G 6'1" 164 Senior Fairfax, VA Voluntarily left team after 4 games this season Eric Lockett 5 F 6'5" 189 Freshman Atlanta, GA Transferred to Chipola College Corey Edwards 13 G 5'11" 177 Senior Middle Village, NY Graduated Trey Porter 15 F 6'10" 200 Freshman Dumfries, VA Transferred to Old Dominion Isaiah Jackson 44 F 6'6" 207 Freshman Gainesville, FL Transferred to Providence

Awards Atlantic 10 All Rookie Team Otis Livingston II

Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week Jaire Grayer - Nov. 22 DeAndre Abram - Dec. 20, Dec. 27 Otis Livingston II - Jan. 10, Feb. 7

Roster

Stats Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Otis Livingston II 32 32 34.3 .390 .354 .777 2.6 3.6 0.7 0.0 11.9 Marquise Moore 28 27 32.5 .398 .063 .679 6.1 3.1 0.6 0.9 11.4 Shevon Thompson 31 29 22.7 .577 .000 .558 10.6 0.5 0.1 1.0 9.9 Jaire Grayer 32 31 29.5 .380 .297 .536 3.8 0.8 0.3 0.4 9.5 Marko Gujanicic 28 22 25.9 .423 .329 .712 6.5 1.5 0.2 0.1 9.2 Jalen Jenkins 32 4 21.4 .497 .000 .692 5.5 0.6 0.5 0.8 7.1 DeAndre Abram 32 13 20.6 .344 .275 .703 2.9 0.2 0.2 0.4 6.6 Patrick Holloway 4 0 13.8 .304 .313 .667 1.3 0.0 0.3 0.3 5.3 Kameron Murrell 32 2 12.0 .189 .224 .813 1.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 1.9 Julian Royal 7 0 4.6 .308 .000 .667 0.7 0.0 0.1 0.3 1.4 Danny Dixon 25 0 7.5 .391 .000 .650 1.2 0.3 0.0 0.2 1.2 Myles Tate 15 0 4.5 .200 .250 .833 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.7 Michael Rudy 10 0 1.8 .000 .000 .000 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Schedule and results

!colspan=12 style="background:#; color:#;"| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style="background:#;"| Atlantic 10 regular season

!colspan=12 style="background:#;"| Atlantic 10 tournament

Recruiting The following is a list of players signed for the 2016–17 season:

See also 2015–16 George Mason Patriots women's basketball team

References