Dana Altman wasn’t pointing any fingers on Saturday afternoon, other than at himself.

The longtime Oregon head coach watched his struggling Ducks allow a whopping 50 points in the second half to No. 9 Michigan State in an 86-74 loss. The setback was just the latest one for Oregon, which has dropped 5 in a row and 6 out of 7 to fall to 16-8 overall and 5-8 in the Big Ten.

Yes, the task was going to be hard already on Saturday at the Breslin Center, one of the toughest buildings in the country to win in, and against a ranked Spartans team that is 19-4 overall and 10-2 in the conference. Michigan State was also coming off back-to-back losses at the Los Angeles schools, so Oregon was up against it on Saturday.

“First half, our ball movement was good. We were up 1 on the boards. Thought our defensive activity was pretty good,” said Altman, whose Ducks let a 50-36 halftime lead slip away. “Second half, activity wasn’t there. Gave them 4 wide-open threes to start the second half. We got killed on the boards (in) the second half.”

Ultimately, Altman was harder on himself than his players after the game.

“Our ball movement’s got to improve. It wasn’t nearly as effective. We took a lot of bad shots in the second half — that’s on me,” said Altman.

Oregon is suffering through its first 5-game skid since the 2013-14 season, which also came under Altman, who’s been the Ducks head coach since 2010. Altman’s team will try to break that losing streak on Tuesday night back at home against Northwestern.

The good news is Oregon is still safely projected into the NCAA Tournament in the latest projections produced by ESPN’s Joe Lunardi. But this is the wrong time of the year to let a slide snowball with a month left in the regular season.