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Montana 69, Oregon 87

Final. Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 PM ET at Matthew Knight Arena. Montana our rank 177 · 1-2; Oregon our rank 46 · 3-0.

Who won Montana vs Oregon?

Final: Oregon 87, Montana 69. Before tip-off the model gave Oregon a 93% chance to win, with a projected margin of 18.2 points for Oregon. Tyrone Riley IV scored 17 for Oregon; Jordan Clark had 19 for Montana.

Prediction made that morning; page updated November 13, 2026.

The call

From this morning's ratings; logged before tip-off.
To winOregon 93%Montana 7%
Projected score59–77Montana, then Oregon
Margin18.2Oregon · no line posted
Total136.4no line posted
First half27–37Oregon ahead 83%
Montana by 10Evenby 10by 20by 30by 40Oregon by 50Model: Oregon by 18.2Montana by 10by 10by 30Oregon by 50Model: Oregon by 18.2

Half of games like thisFour in five

Calls of 90–100% have been right 95.4% of the time in 11,767 past games, and the typical miss on the margin is 8.8 points. After the final, the result is pinned to this strip.

The game without one player

Pick a regular to sit him

Without Malique Ewin: Montana 11%Oregon 89%

The white mark is the call with him: Oregon 93%.

PlayerPoints a game he addsOregon without himChangeProjected score
Oregon
Malique Ewin2.989%−461–76
Dwayne Aristode2.490%−360–76
Taylor Bol Bowen2.091%−260–76
Andrew Meadow2.091%−260–76
Montana
Tyler Thompson0.894%+159–78
Amari Jedkins0.794%+159–78
Jalen Brown0.694%+159–78

Change is in Oregon's win chance, in points. Scores read Montana, then Oregon. A player's value is what the team is better by with him than with a replacement, from the player ratings.

Play-by-play

    Team numbers

    Why the model sees it this way

    The game in numbers

    The matchup

    Form

    Each team's last five before this game

    Montana

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    Oregon

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    The spread and the total are the lines logged with each prediction. Form is what happened; the ratings above already count recent games more.

    Offense against defense

    Adjusted for opponents · rank of 365
    MontanaOregon
    Points scored per 100 possessions102.1 220th117.3 28th
    Points allowed per 100107.0 150th101.0 72nd
    Possessions a game71.4 111th70.1 261st
    Shooting (effective field-goal %)50.0% 222nd56.2% 2nd
    Opponents' shooting50.3% 171st51.3% 243rd
    Turnovers, share of possessions18.2% 199th17.1% 76th
    Offensive rebounds, share of misses30.2% 272nd32.1% 155th
    Free throws per shot0.28 105th0.21 357th

    The widest gap: Oregon's defense (72nd) against Montana's offense (220th), of 365 teams.

    First half

    Projected before tip-off

    Ahead at halftime

    Oregon led at the half, as projected. The margin was off by 1.0 points and the total by 7.0.

    At halftime
    Montana 31, Oregon 40
    Projected halftime score
    Montana 27, Oregon 37
    First-half margin
    Oregon by 10.0
    First-half points, both teams
    64.0
    Tied at the half
    4%

    Our own projection, not a sportsbook's first-half line. On 11,516 past games it had not seen, the halftime leader was right 67.2% of the time and the first-half total was off by 8.1 points on average. This season: 366 of 476 halftime leaders right. Scorecard

    Box score

    Each team's players, most minutes first

    Montana

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Jordan ClarkG3819353
    Tyler ThompsonG3814024
    Jalen BrownG3019143
    Connor DickG260510
    Clayton MpianaF220700
    Semaj CarterG169413
    LoLo RudolphG130130
    Josiah SandersF126100
    Noah BendingerG32100

    Oregon

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Tyrone Riley IVG3317231
    Fred PayneG3212150
    Andrew MeadowF2714112
    Malique EwinC24141320
    Taylor Bol BowenF216540
    Wei LinG1810112
    Sean StewartF136600
    Jasper JohnsonG121220
    Tajh ArizaF113130

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