Anthony Mathis

Dana Altman and the Oregon Ducks have secured a verbal commitment for this upcoming basketball season.

New Mexico senior guard and grad-transfer prospect Anthony Mathis has given the Ducks a verbal commitment to finish out his final year of college basketball at Oregon. Mathis wrapped up a visit to Oregon Wednesday.

The 6-foot-3 guard played his prep basketball at West Linn high school in the Portland area and was a high school teammate of current Oregon senior guard Payton Pritchard. Mathis also lived with the Pritchard family for a good portion of their childhoods.

At New Mexico this past season, Mathis started 21 of the 32 games the Lobos played in. He averaged a team-high 14.4 points per game while also chipping in 2.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.1 steals per game. He made 41 percent of his field goals made 41.6 percent of his

Mathis had to petition to the NCAA for a waiver giving him a fifth year of college eligibility after he dealt with an injury during his sophomore season in 2016-17. Mathis played in 10 games so he was above the threshold for a medical redshirt. The waiver was approved by the NCAA last month, opening the door for the fifth season of college basketball.

In four years at New Mexico, Mathis finished his career with 980 career points, 166 rebounds, 117 assists, 62 steals, and 101 career games played and 34 career starts.

Mathis will be eligible to play right away at Oregon, and he will contend with incoming junior college transfer Chris Duarte and returning guard Will Richardson for one of the starting guard positions.

With Mathis in the fold now, Oregon has seven scholarship players eligible for this upcoming season. Mathis and Pritchard are the lone seniors, Duarte is the lone junior, Richardson and Francis Okoro are sophomores, and CJ Walker and Chandler Lawson are freshmen. Eric Williams Jr. is also on scholarship as a junior transfer but must redshirt this season.