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.

The Oregon Ducks hosted the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday afternoon. It was a top-25 matchup in the Big Ten with the Ducks ranked No. 13 and the Boilermakers

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.

Not even a sellout crowd at Matthew Knight Arena could elevate the Oregon men's basketball team to victory Saturday as the Ducks lost to Purdue