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.

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.

The Ducks shot just 36% from the field in a 65-58 loss to No. 17 Purdue Saturday afternoon in front of an announced crowd of 12,364 at Matthew Knight Arena.

Luckily for the Ducks, they weren’t the only team in the Top 25 to struggle as 19 of the top 25 teams this week lost a game. Oregon Ducks Fall Two Spots In Rankings Oregon came into last week ranked as the No.