Stinging from a loss at UCLA, the Oregon men's basketball team returned to Eugene in mid-February and faced an uncertain stretch run to the season.
Thus is the situation facing the Ducks this week, when head coach Dana Altman's team looks to regroup at home against Arizona State on Thursday (8:30 p.m., FS1), after two narrow losses last week in Los Angeles. But it applied as well to the 2014-15 UO men's basketball team, whose future, both short-term and long-term, could prove instructive to the current team.
Entering the last weekend of February in 2015, the UO men were 18-8 overall, and 8-5 in the Pac-12, only a shade ahead of the current team's record (17-10, 7-7).