The Oregon Ducks have added yet again another elite prospect from the 2020 recruiting class that intends to move into the 2019 class and join the basketball team this coming season.

Four-star shooting guard Addison Patterson has announced he will join the Ducks this coming season and enroll at Oregon in the next few weeks. Patterson is ranked as the nation's 35th best player overall in the class of 2020. Patterson's ranking could likely change in the coming days as 247Sports will have to adjust his ranking as he's now part of the 2019 class. As of now, Patterson is the 12th highest-rated prospect to ever commit to Oregon and is also the program's third-best shooting guard to ever commit.

The 6-foot-6 shooting guard - who is ranked as the seventh-best player at the position in the class of 2020 - is the second player this week to decide to commit and then enroll at Oregon a year in advance. Earlier in the week, 2020 five-star center N'Faly Dante elected to commit to the Ducks and then start the process of moving from the 2020 recruiting class to 2019.

The Oregon Ducks never hosted Patterson for an official visit, but earlier this summer he did visit Eugene and the Oregon basketball program for a two-day unofficial visit. That visit helped lock in Oregon as the favorite to land his commitment over programs like Arizona State, USC, and Syracuse. Prior to Patterson's commitment, the 247Sports Crystal Ball had 92 percent of the 12 predictions cast for the Ducks.

Patterson is considered an "athletic shooting guard with good size for the position" and is viewed as an ultra competitor on both offense and defense. He's also an "extremely athletic and tough player" in transition, and is considered a player with NBA potential.

Patterson caps off an up and down offseason for head coach Dana Altman, that ends with Oregon likely being the Pac-12 favorite to win the conference this season. The Ducks were hit hard by player departures after the team's Sweet 16 season came to an end this past year. Bol Bol declared for the NBA draft and was selected in the second round, while freshman Louis King and sophomore Kenny Wooten also declared for the NBA Draft and were not selected. Sophomore Victor Bailey and freshman Miles Norris also elected to transfer out of the program after the season. Combine those five departures with Oregon's seniors in Paul White and Ehab Amin, Altman found himself having to replace seven out of his 10 scholarship players.

Only junior Payton Pritchard and freshmen Will Richardson and Francis Okoro elected to return to the Ducks for next season.

Prior to the start of last season, Altman and his coaching staff signed the No. 1 junior college prospect in guard Chris Duarte, five-star forward CJ Walker, and four-star forward Chandler Lawson and Isaac Johnson, and Johnson plans to enroll at Oregon in two seasons after a church mission. The quartet that signed early in November finished the early signing period ranked inside the Top 20.

In the spring the Ducks got to work on reloading the roster. Altman landed a commitment from guard Eric Williams Jr. from Dueqense and forward Eugene Omoruyi from Rutgers, but both players must sit out this upcoming season due to NCAA transfer rules. All-Mountain West player Anthony Mathis graduated from New Mexico and has elected to transfer to Oregon for his final season. After being declared eligible by the NCAA, three-star forward Lök Wur officially visited Oregon and committed to the Ducks in June after landing over 20 scholarship offers. July brought good news when UNLV grad-transfer and All-Mountain West forward Shakur Juiston committed to Oregon. Then earlier this week N'Faly Dante became the second five-star recruit to join the class when he committed and reclassified.

Addison Patterson becomes Oregon's 13th scholarship player for the 2019-20 basketball season, giving the Ducks a complete roster. The Ducks finish out the 2019 recruiting class inside the Top 5 and officially the No. 4 ranked program in the country and the top team in the Pac-12.