The 2015–16 Buffalo Bulls women's basketball team represents the University at Buffalo during the

2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began in November and ended with the Final Four in Indianapolis, April 3–5. Practices officially began on October 3. This season of NCAA women's basketball games was the first to be playe ...

. The Bulls, led by fourth year head coach

Felisha Legette-Jack Felisha Legette-Jack (born September 4, 1966) is the current head coach of the Syracuse University's women basketball team. She previously served as the head coach at the University at Buffalo, Indiana University, and Hofstra University's women b ...

, play their home games at Alumni Arena as members of the East Division of the

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. They finished the season 20–14, 8–10 in MAC play to finish in third place in the East Division. They won the MAC women's tournament and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament for the first time in school history where they lost in the first round to Ohio State.

NCAA invitation

Buffalo finished the regular-season tied for seventh in the conference and were assigned the eight seed for the 2016 MAC women's basketball tournament. In the first round game, they beat Bowling Green 64–44, then knocked off the top-seeded Ohio 72–60. After upsetting the fifth seed Akron 88–87 in the semifinals, they face the second-seeded Central Michigan for the tournament championship. This game would be even closer, as it would go to overtime. The game was still tied with 3.4 seconds left in the game. The ball was inbounded to Stephanie Reid who dribbled around a screen and put up a shot that went off the glass, and through the net to win the game 73–71. The win gave Buffalo the first ever championship of the Mid-America Conference and their first ever invitation to the NCAA tournament.

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NCAA invitation

Roster

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