Brandon Angel and a recharged Ducks squad look to bring Oregon back to familiar ways

Dana Altman has readied up the time machine.

Let Brandon Angel tell it.

The Stanford graduate had a throng of suitors upon throwing his name into the transfer portal this past spring. A 6-foot-8 forward who shot 56 percent from the floor, nearly 45 percent from deep, started 60 games and appeared in another 49 outings?

What team wouldn't want one of those? 

The hyper-efficient 13-point-per-game-scorer is the type of player that makes coaches blush. So why, when Wisconsin and Duke were on the table, did Angel choose Dana Altman and the Oregon Ducks?

“He’s a proven winner,” Angel said of Altman at Big Ten Media Day, “and that was my biggest thing in the transfer portal was, I need to win. It’s not a want. I need to win, and I think I found that at Oregon with Coach and the history they’ve had.”