The countdown is on, although Dana Altman isn't in a rush to cross days off his calendar.
As of Sunday, the Oregon men's basketball team was a month out from the start of the 2020-21 season. The NCAA identified Nov. 25 as the first possible day of games following a delayed start due to the pandemic.
The UO men are coming off a Pac-12 regular-season championship, fueled by conference player of the year Payton Pritchard. The postseason was canceled by the onset of the pandemic, and the Ducks couldn't go through a standard summer of strength-and-conditioning workouts, plus open-gym play.