EUGENE — Dana Altman pursued every avenue available, including asking Mario Cristobal for basketball-savvy football players, but Oregon basketball won’t be getting any more practice players this season.

“I did talk to (Cristobal) and he wasn’t very cooperative," Altman said with a laugh. "... We’ve just gone with what we’ve had. I would’ve liked to have gotten some players, but just couldn’t find anybody that we could get eligible and get out there.”

Holding another round of tryouts for walk-ons in the middle of an academic term and completing the required compliance paperwork would’ve been too time consuming, which made the possibility of male athletes from other Oregon sports teams the only other viable option. Few Oregon football players played basketball competitively in high school, though tight end Spencer Webb and linebacker La’Mar Winston Jr. did, but it’s a moot point — Cristobal wasn’t keen on the idea.

A lack of practice players has been an issue for the Ducks for the last month after the season-ending left foot injury to Bol Bol, transfer of Abu Kigab and Kenny Wooten going down for a few weeks with a broken jaw. UO had just eight healthy scholarship players and two walk-ons available until Wooten returned last week, which still leaves almost no flexibility to rest anyone during practice, particularly with Paul White nursing an ankle injury this week.