Phil Knight Invitational

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Phil Knight Invitational
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Logo for Phil Knight Invitational
SportCollege basketball
Founded2017
No. of teams16
Country United States
Venue(s)Moda Center
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Rose Quarter
Portland, Oregon
Most recent
champion(s)		Michigan State, Duke.
TV partner(s)ESPN

The Phil Knight Invitational is a college basketball event held in Portland, Oregon to celebrate Nike co-founder Phil Knight. There have been two different events held and a third is planned for 2022. The event is usually held at the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter.

Event summaries[]

2017 event[]

The 2017 version of the event, also known as the PK-80 Invitational, was a 16-team, two-bracket college basketball event held on November 23, 24, and 26, 2017.[1][2]

All teams had a business relationship with Nike. Each of the Power Five conferences of FBS football had two teams participating—the ACC (Duke and North Carolina), the Big 12 (Oklahoma and Texas), the Big Ten (Michigan State and Ohio State), the Pac-12 (Oregon and Stanford) and the SEC (Arkansas and Florida). Two non-football conferences also had two teams involved—the Big East (Butler and DePaul) and the West Coast Conference (Gonzaga and Portland). The remaining participants were UConn from the American Athletic Conference and Portland State from the Big Sky Conference.[3] Georgetown was originally announced as a participant in the tournament, but withdrew from the tournament in July.[4] DePaul replaced them in the tournament.[5]

The teams were divided into two separate brackets: the Victory and Motion Brackets. Teams from the same conference were placed in separate brackets to avoid non-league sanctioned matchups.[3] The field included 10 of the previous 14 National Champions and three of the Final Four participants from the 2017 NCAA Tournament (North Carolina, Gonzaga, and Oregon). The two eight-team brackets ran simultaneously in the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum with the crowning of two champions.[6] Michigan State won the Victory Bracket[7] while Duke won the Motion Bracket.[8]

Michigan State won the Victory Bracket[9] while Duke won the Motion Bracket.[10] The tournament was called the best in-season tournament ever due to the quality of the teams participating.[3]

Round robin sub-regional games were also played in Nashville, Tennessee on November 24 and 25. Furman, New Hampshire, Northeastern, and Utah State participated with the games held at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.

2019 event[]

On March 6, 2019, Nike and ESPN announced the event will return as a one-day, four-team invitational tournament to be held at the Moda Center. The four teams that participated were: Oregon, Oregon State, Memphis, and Oklahoma.[11] The event consisted of only two games with Oregon defeating Memphis[12] and Oklahoma defeating Oregon State.[13]

2022 event[]

On August 11, 2021, it was reported that the original format would be used again in honor of Knight's 85th birthday (likely to also be known as PK-85) and would be held in November 2022.[14] The 2022 edition of the tournament is expected to have 16 teams consisting of two eight-team tournaments (as the original 2017 version did) and games will be held at Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum in November 2022.[15]

The following teams are expected to participate in the event:

Brackets[]

* – Denotes overtime period

2019 event[]

November 12
   
14 Oregon 82
13 Memphis 74
November 12
   
  Oklahoma 77
  Oregon State 69

2017 event[]

Victory Bracket[]

Campus site games[]
Game 1
November 12
SEC Network 		Game 2
November 14
SportsNet New York
      
  Stony Brook 62
  UConn 72
  Bucknell 73
  Arkansas 101
Game 3
November 15
ACC Network Extra 		Game 4
November 15
Fox Sports Oklahoma / Sooner Sports TV
      
  Ball State 69
  Oklahoma 108
  Bucknell 81
9 North Carolina 93
Game 5
November 17
ESPN 3 		Game 8
November 22
Patriot League Network
      
  Ball State 83
  Bucknell 87
  Stony Brook 76
  Ball State 87
Game 6
November 19
Pac 12 Network 		Game 7
November 19
Big Ten Network
      
  Stony Brook 71
2 Michigan State 93
  Ball State 71
  Oregon 95
Game 9
November 26
   
  Bucknell 85
  Stony Brook 76
Championship round[]
  Fifth Place Game
November 26 		Consolation Second Round
November 24 		Quarterfinals
November 23 		Semifinals
November 24 		Championship
November 26
                                               
       North Carolina  102  
       Portland  78  
     Portland  71        9  North Carolina  87  
     Oklahoma  93          Arkansas  69  
     Arkansas  92
       Oklahoma  83  
     Oklahoma  90        9  North Carolina  45
     Oregon  80        4  Michigan State  63
       DePaul  51  
       4  Michigan State  73  
   DePaul  79        4  Michigan State  77
  Seventh Place Game        Oregon  89*          UConn  57     Third Place Game
     Portland  69      UConn  71      Arkansas  102
     DePaul  82        Oregon  63        UConn  67
All-Tournament team[]
Player School
Cassius Winston (MVP) Michigan State
Jaylen Barford Arkansas
Trae Young Oklahoma
Luke Maye North Carolina
Joshua Langford Michigan State

Motion Bracket[]

Campus site games[]
Game 1
November 14
Longhorn Network 		Game 2
November 17
Pac 12 Network
      
  Northeastern 59
  Stanford 73
  New Hampshire 60
  Texas 78
Game 3
November 18
Fox Sports 2 		Game 4
November 18
KHQ/RTNW
      
  Utah State 66
17 Gonzaga 79
  Furman 65
  Butler 82
Game 5
November 19
Big Ten Network + 		Game 6
November 19
SEC Network
      
  New Hampshire 63
8 Florida 70
  Northeastern 55
  Ohio State 80
Game 7
November 20
ACC Network Extra 		Game 8
November 20
      
  Utah State 79
  Portland State 83
  Furman 63
1 Duke 92
Championship round[]
  Fifth Place Game
November 26 		Consolation Second Round
November 24 		Quarterfinals
November 23 		Semifinals
November 24 		Championship
November 26
                                               
       Duke  99  
       Portland State  81  
     Portland State  69        1  Duke  85*  
     Butler  71          Texas  78  
     Butler  48
       Texas  61  
     Butler  67*        1  Duke  87
     Ohio State  66        7  Florida  84
     7  Florida  108  
         Stanford  87  
   Stanford  71        7  Florida  111**
  Seventh Place Game        Ohio State  79        17  Gonzaga  105     Third Place Game
     Portland State  87    17  Gonzaga  86      Texas  71
     Stanford  78        Ohio State  59      17  Gonzaga  76*
All-Tournament team[]
Player School
Marvin Bagley III (MVP) Duke
KeVaughn Allen Florida
Chris Chiozza Florida
Jalen Hudson Florida
Johnathan Williams Gonzaga

Sub-regional games[]

Sub-Regional Game 1
November 24 		Sub-Regional Game 2
November 24
      
  Northeastern 67
  Utah State 71
  New Hampshire 64
  Furman 78

Source[16][17]

Sub-Regional Game 3
November 25 		Sub-Regional Game 4
November 25
      
  Furman 78
  Northeastern 67
  Utah State 77
  New Hampshire 63

Source[18][19]

References[]

  1. ^ "Brackets Revealed for PK80 – To Be Played Over Thanksgiving Weekend 2017". Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  2. ^ "16-team PK80 event honoring Knight unveiled". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  3. ^ a b c "Duke, Michigan State and UNC may make the PK80 the best in-season tourney ever". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  4. ^ "Georgetown drops out of loaded PK80 tournament". CollegeBasketballTalk. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  5. ^ "DePaul added to Nike tourney honoring Phil Knight over Thanksgiving". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  6. ^ "Brackets Revealed for PK80 – to be Played Over Thanksgiving Weekend 2017 - ESPN MediaZone". espnmediazone.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  7. ^ "North Carolina vs. Michigan State - Game Recap - November 26, 2017 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  8. ^ "Duke vs. Florida - Game Recap - November 26, 2017 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  9. ^ "The worst shooting in UNC history gives Michigan State PK80 Victory bracket title". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  10. ^ "Duke wins PK80, playing with fire and taunting foes with comeback victories". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  11. ^ Kish, Matthew (2019-03-06). "Phil Knight Invitational basketball event returns". www.bizjournals.com. Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  12. ^ "No. 14 Oregon Holds Off No. 13 Memphis". Sports Illustrated. Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  13. ^ "Oklahoma vs. Oregon State - Game Recap - November 12, 2019 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  14. ^ "PK85 field tentatively set for 2022". College Hoops Today. College Hoops Today. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Report: 16-team field for PK85 tournament tentatively set". 247Sports. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  16. ^ "Furman vs. New Hampshire - Game Recap - November 24, 2017 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  17. ^ "Utah State holds off late-charging Northeastern 71-67". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  18. ^ "Merrill scores 20, leads Utah State over New Hampshire 77-63". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  19. ^ "Furman rolls in Nashville, beats Northeastern 78-67 in PK80". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-08-11.

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