The 2015–16 Saint Joseph's Hawks basketball team represented Saint Joseph's University during the

2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 13. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and ended with the Final Four in Houston April 2–4. Practices officially began on October 2. Rule changes The followin ...

. The Hawks, led by 21st year head coach

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, played their home games at

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and are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Hawks finished the season 28–8, 13–5 in A-10 play to finish in fourth place. They defeated

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, and VCU to be champions of the A-10 tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. As a #8 seed, they defeated

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in the first round, their first NCAA Tournament victory since 2004, to advance to the second round where they lost to

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was named A-10 player of the year.

Previous season

The

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finished the 2014–15 season 13–18, 7–11 in A-10 play to finish in tenth place. They lost in the second round of the A-10 tournament to St. Bonaventure.

Departures

Incoming recruits

Recruits Class of 2016

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

*AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings

References

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