Dana Altman has added his final piece to his 2025-26 roster just 22 days ahead of the season's opening game against Utah at Matt Knight Arena, and it's a big splash in the college basketball world.
Late Wednesday night the Ducks announced the signing of Wei Lin, a 6-2 guard from the Nanjing Tongxi Monkey Kings of the Chinese Basketball Association.
Lin averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 assists and 37.2% from three last season, a mature international player at 22.
He's eligible this season alongside Jackson Shelstad, Nate Bittle and Kwame Evans, plus transfer acquisitions 6-9 forward Sean Stewart of Duke and Ohio State, 6-7 forward Devon Pryor from Texas, and 6-4 senior guard Takai Simpkins of Elon.
Wei Lin（林葳-PG） has cleared NCAA international certification and will suit up for Oregon Men’s Basketball this season🦆🔥 pic.twitter.com/XmMqzJYDMW
— MSTHoops (@Msthoops) October 2, 2025
This promises to be an exciting Duck team, one that can score, rebound, run the floor and defend. They also reached into international basketball to find 6-10 power forward/post Ege Demir from Turkey and 6-10 forward Efe Vatan, also from Turkey.
Lin is experienced and versatile, able to compete at point or shooting guard, an 88 percent foul shooter. He's played solidly against top Asian pros and at the Adidas Euro Camp games, He visited Oregon on September 9th.
As his squad enters the last three weeks of their fall camp and fall term begins, Altman's first challenge is to sort out roles and rotations, but that is something that 10-time conference champion excels at. It will be fascinating to see him assemble this one.