2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season
The 2016–17 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season begins with practices in October 2016 and ends with the 2017 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament in March 2017 at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada. The regular season begins on the first weekend of November 11, 2016 with Arizona-Michigan State, with the conference schedule starting in the last week of December 28, 2016 with UCLA-Oregon.
Lonzo Ball, UCLA
T. J. Leaf, UCLA
Markelle Fultz, Washington
Kobi Simmons, Arizona
2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team
The 2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ducks were led by seventh year head coach Dana Altman. They played their home games at Matthew Knight Arena as members of the Pac–12 Conference. They finished the season 33–6, 16–2 in Pac-12 play to win a share of the regular season Pac-12 championship. They defeated Arizona State and California in the Pac-12 tournament before losing in the final to Arizona. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they defeated Iona, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Kansas to advance to the Final Four, marking the longest span between appearances in NCAA history, where they lost to the eventual champions North Carolina.
Oregon transfer Paul White in 2013 Class 4A Illinois High School Association playoffs