Spartan Basketball Preview: The Oregon Ducks

Fresh off an impressive 80-63 win Saturday at Washington, Michigan State will look to close out Oregon and return home at 17-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big Ten.

Michigan State faced Oregon twice last year – once at the Breslin Center and again in the Big Ten tournament. MSU won both matchups but Oregon gave the Spartans some initial trouble in East Lansing. The Ducks took a 50-36 lead into the halftime break before the Spartans responded with a massive second half, outscoring the Ducks 50-24 en route to a 12 point win. This game might be best remembered among Spartan fans as Jase Richardson’s formal introduction to the national stage as he dropped a season-high 29 points on the Ducks.

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Richardson led the Spartans over Oregon again with a 17 point performance in a 74-64 Spartan victory in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament before becoming an NBA draft pick after his one-and-done season at MSU.

Oregon, however, enters this matchup with two faces familiar to the Spartans out with injury and struggling to find their way.

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Oregon Overview

The Ducks enter this game just 8-10 overall, 1-6 in the Big Ten, and losers of four straight. Their only conference win is against Maryland who just picked up their first conference win of the year on Sunday over Penn State (who still has no B1G wins).

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Oregon started the year with four straight wins but the toughest opponent in that group was perhaps their rival, Oregon State. Five straight losses followed and then a 4-1 stretch preceded the current four game losing streak.

In conference, Oregon has suffered close losses to USC (82-77) and Rutgers (88-85) and fell by double digits to UCLA (74-63), Ohio State (72-62), and, most recently, Saturday to Michigan (81-71). Just prior to the loss to Michigan, the Ducks were crushed at Nebraska 90-55.

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Publish date : 2026-01-19 20:00:00

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