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.
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
Roster
Roster notes January 5, 2016 – Freshman Trevor Manuel asked for release and would transfer. January 6, 2016 – Redshirt Senior Dylan Ennis would miss the rest of the season due to a foot injury. 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.
Schedule
!colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Exhibition
!colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Pac-12 regular season
!colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| Pac-12 tournament
!colspan=6 style="background:#004F27; color:yellow;"| NCAA tournament
Ranking movement
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