Dana Altman retires as Oregon's winningest coach — SkimNews
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- Dana Altman is retiring after 16 seasons as Oregon men's basketball head coach, with assistant Tony Stubblefield named interim head coach for the 2026-27 season while Oregon launches a national search for a permanent replacement.
- Altman, 68, finishes his career as the winningest coach in Oregon men's basketball history with a 792-425 record across 37 Division I seasons, ranking 15th all-time in NCAA wins and fifth among active coaches at the time of his retirement.
- Before last season's 12-20 campaign, Altman had won at least 20 games in each of his 15 prior seasons in Eugene, reaching the NCAA tournament nine times and guiding the Ducks to a 2017 Final Four.
- He captured four Pac-12 regular-season titles and four Pac-12 tournament championships, and won at least one NCAA tournament game in all nine appearances during his Oregon tenure.
- Altman's retirement is the third consecutive fall to feature a surprise power-conference men's basketball coaching departure, following Virginia's Tony Bennett (October 2024) and Auburn's Bruce Pearl (September 2025).
- Stubblefield, who spent 13 seasons as Altman's assistant in Eugene, previously served as head coach at DePaul from 2021 to 2024.
Why it matters: This forces Oregon into a national coaching search after the program posted a 12-20 season that ended a 15-year run of 20-win campaigns, while continuing a fall-after-fall wave of unexpected power-conference men's basketball retirements. The Ducks' Nov. 2 opener against Montana now serves as Stubblefield's interim debut.
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