Purdue won the Big Ten by three games last season, despite three road losses. Yet it also went to Champaign and beat its closest competitor — the Illini — in the penultimate game of the regular season.

Oregon dropped in the polls but stayed in the top 15 after losing to Purdue. The Ducks (15-3, 4-3 Big Ten) are No. 15 with 683 points in this week’s AP men’s college basketball poll and the same spot with 309 points in the coaches poll after Saturday’s 65-58 loss to the Boilermakers.

The Oregon Ducks dropped down form No. 13 to No. 15 in this weeks AP Rankings. Oregon is right behind a pair of SEC team in Texas A&M and Mississippi State.

Oregon beat itself up for much of this game, and bad shot selection, silly turnovers, and a lack of rebounding were its downfalls. One solace the Ducks can take away is that most of their mistakes are fixable mistakes, but there’s a lot of fixing before the Ducks host Washington Tuesday night.

It is a top-25 Big Ten battle as we continue our College Basketball odds series with a Purdue-Oregon prediction and pick.

Oregon is widely expected to be a top team once again next season, though there’s a wide range for the Ducks based on which pundit is projecting. UO is ranked anywhere from No. 2 by Pro Football Focus to No.