For the third year in a row, a legendary coach is stepping away just before the season starts.
Oregon head coach Dana Altman announced his retirement on Wednesday.
Altman leaves Oregon as the program's all-time winningest head coach. He won 792 games over 37 seasons, the fifth-most among active coaches. He took the Ducks to nine NCAA Tournaments and the 2017 Final Four while winning four Pac-12 regular-season championships and four Pac-12 Tournament titles.
"I have had to make two really tough decisions in my coaching career," said Altman. "The first was leaving Creighton, a place my family and I dearly loved, to come to Oregon. This is the second. I've loved every minute of coaching here, and stepping away is difficult and truly painful. I love coaching, it's what I know best and what I've been fortunate enough to do for almost five decades. I'm going to miss my coaches, my players and our incredible fans more than I can express. But I know this is the right thing to do at this time. I want to thank former AD Pat Kilkenny for giving me a chance here, Phil Knight and Tim Boyle for their constant and unwavering support, my coaches and players past and present, Rob, President Scholz, and of course our amazing fans. It's been the honor of my life to coach the Ducks."
Assistant coach Tony Stubblefield, who has spent 13 seasons on Altman's Oregon staff, will serve as interim head coach for the 2026-27 season.
Watch Altman's full retirement press conference below:
We had some non-televised exhibition hoops yesterday!
Dayton played Xavier and Cincinnati played Ohio State in the CareSource Invitational. They played the games at the Cincinnati Open Sporting Club and the visuals were tremendous.
Xavier 82 | Dayton 76: Mike Nwoko finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds for Xavier, though he did commit nine fouls during the contest. Tru Washington, Ruben Dominguez and Jovan Milicevic all scored in double-figures, giving the Musketeers a very balanced offensive attack. Zaide Lowery led Dayton with 16 points.
Cincinnati 79 | Ohio State 68: Tylen Riley led all scorers with 23 points for the Bearcats. Tyler Tejada and Jayden Hastings added 17 and 16 points respectively. John Mobley Jr. was the only Buckeye in double figures with 15. The weather was a factor as both teams combined to shoot 8-42 from three.
Murray State 93 | Wichita State 87: Four Racers finished in double figures, with Roman Domon leading the way at 17 points and six assists. Dillon Battie had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Wichita State.
Georgia 94 | Georgia State 61: Freddie Dillone V scored 14 points while Blue Cain and Kanon Catchings each had 13 for Georgia. Jacob Meyer had 20 points for Georgia State.
Utah 79 | UNLV 69: Trey Campbell and TJ Burch led the Utes, combining for 33 points. Sebastian Mack poured in 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds for UNLV.
The exhibition game between Florida State and Mississippi State set for this weekend was canceled due to a potential tropical storm.
Check out HoopsHD for a full list of exhibition games.
Links, news and notes:
Four-star forward Kamsi Awaka, Tobe Awaka's younger brother, committed to Florida.
Four-star forward Tyran Frazier committed to Virginia Tech.
New Mexico and Grand Canyon were picked atop the Mountain West preseason poll. Jake Hall was named Preseason Player of the Year.
Furman was picked first in the SoCon preseason poll.
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