Oregon will open the season unranked for the second straight season.

The Ducks are unranked but received 12 points in the AP men's preseason college basketball poll released Monday, placing them 36th overall.

Oregon, which made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, received the ninth-most votes among Big Ten teams, with No. 14 Purdue, No. 17 Indiana, No. 22 UCLA and No. 25 Rutgers in the Preseason ranked poll.

UO was ranked sixth in a preseason Big Ten media poll.

Oregon opens the season Nov. 4 against UC Riverside (7:30 p.m., Big Ten Network+).

Oregon in the preseason AP poll under Dana Altman

2024-25: No. 36 unranked

2023-24: unranked, finished season unranked No. 27

2022-23: No. 21, finished season unranked

2021-22: No. 13, finished the regular season unranked

2020-21: No. 20, finished regular season unranked No. 32

2019-20: No. 15, finished regular season No. 13

2018-19: No. 14, finished regular season unranked No. 39

2017–18: unranked, completed regular season unranked

2016–17: No. 5, finished regular season No. 9

2015–16: Unranked No. 26, finished regular season No. 5

2014-15: Unranked No. 33, finished regular season unranked No. 26

2013–14: No. 19, finished regular season unranked No. 33

2012–13: unranked, finished regular season No. 25

2011-12: unranked, completed regular season unranked

2010-11: unranked, completed regular season unranked