Big Ten MBB projections for 2024-25: Indiana’s on top and Purdue’s in contention, but Oregon lurks as a supreme sleeper

Dana Altman’s breakthrough at Oregon began in obscurity. The Ducks were not ranked in the 2012-13 Associated Press preseason poll and, in fact, didn’t receive a single vote at the start of a journey that would culminate in the Sweet 16.

The same scenario unfolded two years later, when the Ducks went from nowhere to the Elite Eight.

Since the middle of the 2010s, Altman’s program has spent substantial time in the spotlight. The Ducks recruit at a high level, with five-star prospects...