Ducks and Memphis Square Off in Top-15 Meeting

Oregon and Memphis meet for the first time on the hardwood Tuesday at the Moda Center in the first game of the Phil Knight Invitational (6 p.m., ESPN).

THE STARTING FIVE
• 1 – A pair of Matthew Knight Arena records fell in Oregon's last outing. Anthony Mathis set an MKA record with nine three-pointers (part of his career-high 30 points), while as a team the Ducks shot an arena-record 70.0 percent from the field (42-of-60). Those marks were just off the overall school records of 10 three-pointers and 71.0 field goal percentage.
• 2 – Dana Altman became the winningest coach in school history with the Ducks' season-opening victory over Fresno State. That was his 236th win at Oregon, one more than Ernie Kent won as the Ducks' head coach. Altman is now the winningest coach at two Division I institutions - Oregon and Creighton (327 wins in 16 seasons).
• 3 – Payton Pritchard is now one of just two players in program history with 1,000 points, 500 assists and 400 rebounds, joining UO Hall of Famer Ron Lee. He also passed Luke Ridnour for third on the UO career assists list against Boise State.
• 4 – UNLV transfer Shakur Juiston had a career-high nine assists to go with 16 points against Boise State.
• 5 – Dana Altman is one of six active head coaches in NCAA Division I who have posted a winning record for the last 22 consecutive seasons. The other five, Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Roy Williams, Bill Self and Jim Boeheim, are in the Hall of Fame.
• BENCH – Oregon's 2019 recruiting class was ranked fourth nationally, after being third in 2018.

ALTMAN ALONE ATOP OREGON'S WINS LIST
Dana Altman became the school's all-time winningest coach when Oregon defeated Fresno State in the 2019-20 season opener. He passed Ernie Kent, who won 235 games in 13 seasons (1998-2010) with the Ducks.

WOODEN UP NEXT FOR ALTMAN
Dana Altman is currently 29th in all-time NCAA Division I coaching wins with 647. No. 28 on that list is John Wooden, who had 664 career wins for Indiana State and UCLA.

ALTMAN NOW WINS LEADER AT TWO DIVISION I SCHOOLS
Dana Altman is now the winningest coach at two Division I institutions - Oregon (237) and Creighton (327 wins in 16 seasons). He's one of just eight coaches who is the current career wins leader at two different NCAA Division I institutions. The others include Jim Calhoun (Connecticut, Northeastern), Cliff Ellis (Clemson, Coastal Carolina), Lou Henson (Illinois, New Mexico State), Ron Hunter (Georgia State, IUPUI), Danny Kaspar (Stephen F. Austin, Texas State), Gregg Marshall (Wichita State, Winthrop) and Willis Wilson (Rice, Texas A&M Corpus Christi).

DUCKS SIGN ALTMAN THROUGH 2025-26
In March of 2019, University of Oregon Director of Athletics Rob Mullens announced a contract extension with head coach Dana Altman that will keep him in Eugene through the 2025-26 season.

MKA RECORDS FALL
Two Matthew Knight Arena records fell during the Ducks' Nov. 9 win over Boise State. As a team, Oregon shot 70.0 percent from the field (42-of-60), to shatter the previous mark of .653 set in 2013 against Western Carolina. The Ducks nearly broke the overall school record for field goal percentage, falling just short of the .710 mark that the team recorded versus Arizona in 1983. Anthony Mathis made nine three pointers to break the MKA mark of eight by Travis Hammonds of Long Beach State and Jordan Hayward of Central Arkansas. That was one shy of Tajuan Porter's school record of 10, set versus Portland State in 2006.

PRITCHARD WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF UO CAREER RECORDS
Senior Payton Pritchard has a chance to break a number of school career records, including steals, assists, wins and games played. He currently has 169 steals and 501 assists. Kenya Wilkins (1993-97) currently holds the records in both categories (213 steals, 614 assists) and both are well within Pritchard's reach. Pritchard is just the ninth member of Oregon's 80-win club (players who have played in at least 80 victories as a Duck) and currently sits at 83 (fifth). The career leader in wins is Johnathan Loyd, who won 97 games as a Duck between 2010-14. Prichard has also played 115 games in three seasons at Oregon. Loyd is the Ducks' all-time leader in games played with 144.

PRITCHARD PASSES RIDNOUR, REACHES 500 CAREER ASSISTS
With seven assists Saturday against Boise State, Payton Pritchard passed UO Hall of Famer Luke Ridnour (500/2000-03) for third on the UO career charts with 501. Ron Lee (572/1972-76) is second.

PRITCHARD CLIMBS SCORING LIST
Payton Pritchard is the 37th 1,000-point scorer in program history. Last Tuesday against Fresno State, he passed Jim Barnett (1,325/1963-66) for 18th place. Pritchard currently shows 1,346 points. Next up is Joseph Young (1,388/2013-15).

PRITCHARD LEADS NCAA IN CONSECUTIVE STARTS
Senior guard Payton Pritchard has started 111 consecutive games, a streak that leads the NCAA. Pritchard came off the bench his first four games as a freshman before moving into the starting lineup for the last 111 in a row.

PRITCHARD TOPS NCAA IN MINUTES PLAYED
Payton Pritchard played in 1,349 minutes in 2018-19 to lead Division I in minutes played. He edged Virginia's Kyle Guy (1,344) by five minutes.

PRITCHARD SOARS UP CAREER STEALS LIST
With 25 steals in the last 11 games of the year, junior guard Payton Pritchard leapt from ninth to second on UO's career steals list. He now shows 169 career steals and trails only school record holder Kenya Wilkins (213/1993-97).

MATHIS, JUISTON BREAKOUT AGAINST THE BRONCOS
Senior transfers Anthony Mathis and Shakur Juiston had breakout games Nov. 9 against Boise State. Mathis scored a career-high 30 points - including a Matthew Knight Arena nine three-pointers, while Juiston has a career-high nine assists with 16 points against the Broncos.

OKORO NETS FIRST DOUBLE-DOUBLE IN OPENER
Sophomore Francis Okoro netted his first career double-double in the season opener against Fresno State (10 points, 10 rebounds).

DUCKS EARN NINTH STRAIGHT 20-WIN SEASON
Oregon earned its ninth consecutive 20-win season in 2018-19. The Ducks are one of only 12 schools nationally that have won 20 games in a row for at least nine consecutive seasons.
Teams with 9+ 20-Win Seasons:
Belmont, Cincinnati, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Oregon, Saint Mary's, Vermont and Wichita State.

OREGON SECURES NINTH STRAIGHT WINNING SEASON
Last year was Oregon's ninth straight winning season, something that hadn't happened in Eugene in 87 years. The only other time Oregon has had nine or more winning seasons in a row was the decade between 1923-32, when the program posted 10 consecutive winning seasons under coaches William Reinhart and George Bohler.

ALTMAN BECOMES PAC-12 TOURNAMENT'S WINNINGEST COACH
With four wins in the 2019 Pac-12 Tournament, Dana Altman became the winningest coach in Tournament history. He finished 2019 with 19 career Pac-12 Tournament wins. He passed Sean Miller, Arizona (17), and Lute Olson, Arizona (16), for the all-time lead.

NBA DRAFT NOTES
With Bol Bol being drafted by Denver in the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft, Oregon is now one of just seven programs nationally that has produced five or more NBA Draft picks over the last three seasons. Oregon is joined in that elite echelon of college programs by Duke (11), Kentucky (10), UCLA (6), Villanova (6), Florida State (5) and North Carolina (5).

NBA ROSTER NOTES
Oregon has five alums playing in the NBA in 2019-20. Chris Boucher won a World Championship with Toronto last season and is in his second year with the Raptors (third overall). Another former World Champion, Jordan Bell, is in his first season (third overall) with Minnesota after spending the previous two years with the Golden State Warriors. Dillon Brooks is in his third season with Memphis, while this is year two in Washington for Troy Brown Jr. The Ducks also have a couple of players on two-way contracts in Bol Bol (Denver) and Louis King (Detroit). in the NBA G League, McKyle McIntosh and Paul White are with Raptors 905, Kenny Wooten is with the Westchester Knicks and Elijah Brown is with the Grand Rapids Drive.

HEY MAN, NICE SHOT
Oregon has made at least one three-point field goal in 751 consecutive games. The Ducks' last game without a three-pointer was Feb. 6, 1997, versus Washington. The Ducks last held an opponent without a three-pointer in 2015-16 when Cal went 0-for-12 from three-point range on Jan. 6, 2016.

FOR THE DEFENSE
Under Dana Altman, Oregon is 164-20 when holding opponents under 70 points, including a 129-12 mark the last six seasons.