It was head coach Karen Aston's fourth season at Texas.

The Longhorns were members of the Big 12 Conference and played their home games at the Frank Erwin Center.

They advanced to the championship game of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament, where they lost to Baylor.

They received at-large bid of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, where they defeated Alabama State and Missouri in the first and second rounds, UCLA in the sweet sixteen before last year's sweet sixteen rematch to Connecticut in the elite eight.

2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings Most University of Texas home games were shown on the Longhorn Network, with national telecasts on the Big 12 Conference's television partners.