Oregon Ducks ‘fully expect’ Michigan to make return trip of men’s basketball home-and-home series

In the end Michigan might lastly go to Eugene for the again half of a home-and-home males’s basketball collection with Oregon that started three seasons in the past, nevertheless it received’t be in 2022-23.

Oregon defeated Michigan, 71-70 in time beyond regulation, on Dec. 14, 2019 at a offered out Crisler Area. The Geese and Wolverines have been scheduled to play in mid-November 2020 at Matthew Knight Area earlier than the pandemic pushed the sport off till 2021-22, which got here and went with out the sport at UO.

Now one other season goes by with out the marquee dwelling sport for Oregon, which is intent on internet hosting the Large Ten energy.

“There’s no buyout, they’re coming,” stated Oregon coach Dana Altman, who wasn’t certain if the sport can be in 2023-24. “I don’t know; they’ve a tough time answering the cellphone I suppose. They owe us a sport and we absolutely count on them to repay the sport. I’m certain if the shoe was on the opposite foot they might count on us to return it and we certain within the hell count on them to return it.”

Oregon’s nonconference schedule contains eight dwelling video games and three video games in Portland as a part of the Phil Knight Invitational. It makes the Dec. 4 journey to UCLA the lone journey outdoors the state earlier than January for the Geese.

“It didn’t occur that we had (a nonconference street sport), a possibility that we favored,” Altman stated. “With Houston coming in and with Michigan owing us a sport it wasn’t like we wanted to get a sport for subsequent 12 months that any individual owed us. It wasn’t one thing that we stated, ‘We’re not occurring the street,’ it was simply the best way it occurred. Scheduling isn’t an actual science and being out right here on the West coast does create issues with some folks not eager to journey. It’s a great schedule; it’ll problem us. Going to UCLA early goes to be a tricky street journey. I feel Pac-12 might be fairly stable. I feel our schedule will give us every thing we wish.”