Oregon Men's Basketball releases full 2024-2025 schedule
Oregon fans have been waiting some time now for Oregon Men’s Basketball to release their non-conference schedule, and today it has finally been released. The Ducks are looking to make their second consecutive March Madness and look to be far deeper of a team.
Non Conference
Nov. 4th: vs UC Riverside
Nov. 8th: vs Montana
Nov. 12th: vs Portland
Nov. 17th: vs Troy
Nov. 21st: at Oregon State
Nov. 26th: vs Texas A&M in Las Vegas for the Players Era Festival
Nov. 27th: vs San Diego State in Las Vegas for the Players Era Festival
Nov. 30th: vs Creighton in Las Vegas for the Players Era Festival
Dec. 15th: vs Stephen F. Austin
Dec. 21st: vs Stanford in San Jose
Dec. 29th: vs Weber State
Conference Schedule
Dec. 4th: at USC
Dec. 8th: vs UCLA
Jan. 2nd: vs Illinois
Jan. 5th: vs Maryland
Jan. 9th: at Ohio State
Jan. 12th: at Penn State
Jan. 18th: vs Purdue
Jan. 21st: vs Washington
Jan. 25th: at Minnesota
Jan. 30th: at UCLA
Feb. 2nd: vs Nebraska
Feb. 5th: at Michigan
Feb. 8th: at Michigan State
Feb. 11th: vs Northwestern
Feb. 16th: vs Rutgers
Feb. 19th: at Iowa
Feb. 22nd: at Wisconsin
March 1st: vs USC
March 4th: vs Indiana
March 9th: at Washington
March 12th-16th: Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, Indiana
My Takeaways
I’ll start with the non conference games, which I’m slightly disappointed with. The tournament we are in is great, facing some high level opponents and a rematch of last year’s wild 2OT loss against Creighton. All three of these opponents were in March Madness last season and these should be very good contests. Outside of that and maybe Stanford, Oregon’s non conference schedule is certainly lacking a high quality opponent.
Of their non conference opponents (excluding the tournament), the highest KenPom ranking any opponent had was 105th in Stanford. That game would only qualify as a Quad 3 win, which is the second lowest quad victory. Oregon last season was 4-7 in Quad 1 games, 6-4 in Quad 2 games, 8-1 in Quad 3 games, and 6-0 in Quad 4 games. Looking at the rest of their opponents, UC Riverside finished at 217th, with an ugly 16-18 record. Troy finished in the KenPom rankings at 132nd last season with a 20-12 record overall. Oregon State finished at 155, Weber State at 156, Montana 163, and Stephen F. Austin at 170. Portland had the worst KenPom ranking out of any of the opponents at an abysmal 299th, keep in mind only 362 schools are ranked.
Oregon should finish this slate with no more than three losses and I feel like if they do without major improvement after, that the expectations should be lightened a bit. Typically one opponent the Ducks play will keep it rather close and then Oregon rolls in the second half. I am very optimistic and excited to watch this team play, and will be sure to keep everyone in the loop this season.
