Phil Knight Invitational

The Phil Knight Invitational is a college basketball event held in Portland, Oregon to celebrate Nike co-founder Phil Knight. There have been three different events held, most recently in November 2022. The event has been held at the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter.

Phil Knight Invitational
SportCollege basketball
Founded2017
No. of teams16
Country United States
Venue(s)Moda Center
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Chiles Center
Portland, Oregon
Most recent
champion(s)
Men's: UConn, Purdue
Women's: North Carolina, UConn
TV partner(s)ESPN

2017 event

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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][8] while Duke won the Motion Bracket.[9][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.

Victory Bracket

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Campus site games

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Game 1
November 12
SEC Network
Game 2
November 14
SportsNet New York
  Stony Brook 62
  Bucknell 73   UConn 72
  Arkansas 101
Game 3
November 15
ACC Network Extra
Game 4
November 15
Fox Sports Oklahoma / Sooner Sports TV
  Ball State 69
  Bucknell 81   Oklahoma 108
9 North Carolina 93
Game 5
November 17
ESPN 3
Game 8
November 22
Patriot League Network
  Ball State 83
  Stony Brook 76   Bucknell 87
  Ball State 87
Game 6
November 19
Pac 12 Network
Game 7
November 19
Big Ten Network
  Stony Brook 71
  Ball State 71 2 Michigan State 93
  Oregon 95
Game 9
November 26
   
  Bucknell 85
  Stony Brook 76

Championship round

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Fifth Place Game
November 26
Consolation Second Round
November 24
Quarterfinals
November 23
Semifinals
November 24
Championship
November 26
9North Carolina102
Portland78
Portland719North Carolina87
Oklahoma93Arkansas69
Arkansas92
Oklahoma83
Oklahoma909North Carolina45
Oregon804Michigan State63
DePaul51
4Michigan State73
Seventh Place GameDePaul794Michigan State77Third Place Game
Oregon89*UConn57
Portland69UConn71Arkansas102
DePaul82Oregon63UConn67

All-Tournament team

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Player School
Cassius Winston (MVP) Michigan State
Jaylen Barford Arkansas
Trae Young Oklahoma
Luke Maye North Carolina
Joshua Langford Michigan State

Motion Bracket

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Campus site games

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Game 1
November 14
Longhorn Network
Game 2
November 17
Pac 12 Network
  Northeastern 59
  New Hampshire 60   Stanford 73
  Texas 78
Game 3
November 18
Fox Sports 2
Game 4
November 18
KHQ/RTNW
  Utah State 66
  Furman 65 17 Gonzaga 79
  Butler 82
Game 5
November 19
Big Ten Network +
Game 6
November 19
SEC Network
  New Hampshire 63
  Northeastern 55 8 Florida 70
  Ohio State 80
Game 7
November 20
ACC Network Extra
Game 8
November 20
  Utah State 79
  Furman 63   Portland State 83
1 Duke 92

Championship round

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Fifth Place Game
November 26
Consolation Second Round
November 24
Quarterfinals
November 23
Semifinals
November 24
Championship
November 26
1Duke99
Portland State81
Portland State691Duke85*
Butler71Texas78
Butler48
Texas61
Butler67*1Duke87
Ohio State667Florida84
7Florida108
Stanford87
Seventh Place GameStanford717Florida111**Third Place Game
Ohio State7917Gonzaga105
Portland State8717Gonzaga86Texas71
Stanford78Ohio State5917Gonzaga76*

All-Tournament team

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Player School
Marvin Bagley III (MVP) Duke
KeVaughn Allen Florida
Chris Chiozza Florida
Jalen Hudson Florida
Johnathan Williams Gonzaga

Sub-regional games

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

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

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2019 event

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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: Memphis, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Oregon State.[15] The event consisted of only two games with Oregon defeating Memphis[16] and Oklahoma defeating Oregon State.[17]

2019 bracket

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

2022 event

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On February 15, 2022, it was announced that the event would return in honor of Knight's 85th birthday.[18] For the first time, the event included women's teams. There were two separate events for each gender: the Phil Knight Invitational and the Phil Knight Legacy tournaments. The events were held from November 24 through 27, 2022.[19] All events were played in a bracket-style format, with the men's teams playing three games apiece and the women's teams playing two games. The events took place at three Portland venues: the University of Portland's Chiles Center, the Moda Center, and Veterans Memorial Coliseum (VMC).[20] For the first two rounds of the men's brackets, the top half of the bracket played during the afternoon sessions and the bottom half of the bracket during the evening sessions. The championship and consolation games for all brackets were played at the same locations, with the Invitational tournament in the afternoon session and the Legacy tournament in the evening session. The championship and consolation games for the women's brackets were played before the corresponding game for the men.[21][22][23][24]

Phil Knight Invitational tournament

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Men's bracket

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Game recaps: [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]

5th Place Game
November 27
Chiles Center
Consolation Semifinals
November 25
VMC
First Round
November 24
Moda Center
Semifinals
November 25
VMC
Championship
November 27
Moda Center
1North Carolina89
Portland81
Portland831North Carolina65
Villanova71Iowa State70
Villanova79
Iowa State81*
Portland77Iowa State53
12Michigan State7820UConn71
20UConn83
Oregon59
7th Place Game – ChilesOregon7020UConn823rd Place Game – VMC
12Michigan State7418Alabama67
Villanova6712Michigan State701North Carolina101
Oregon7418Alabama8118Alabama103****

* – Denotes overtime period

Women's bracket

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Game recaps: [37][38][39][40]

Semifinals
November 24
Chiles Center
Championship Game
November 27
Moda Center
      
8 North Carolina 85
18 Oregon 79
8 North Carolina 73
5 Iowa State 64
5 Iowa State 80
  Michigan State 49 Consolation – VMC
18 Oregon 86
  Michigan State 78

Phil Knight Legacy tournament

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Men's bracket

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Game recaps: [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]

5th Place Game
November 27
Chiles Center
Consolation Semifinals
November 25
Moda Center
First Round
November 24
VMC
Semifinals
November 25
Moda Center
Championship
November 27
Moda Center
8Duke54
Oregon State51
Oregon State688Duke71
Florida81Xavier64
Xavier90
Florida83
Florida558Duke56
West Virginia8424Purdue75
24Purdue80
West Virginia68
7th Place Game – ChilesWest Virginia8924Purdue843rd Place Game – VMC
Portland State716Gonzaga66
Oregon State716Gonzaga102Xavier84
Portland State83Portland State786Gonzaga88

Women's bracket

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Game recaps: [53][54][55][56]

Semifinals
November 25
Chiles Center
Championship Game
November 27
Moda Center
      
3 UConn 78
  Duke 50
3 UConn 86
9 Iowa 79
9 Iowa 73
  Oregon State 59 Consolation – VMC
  Duke 54
  Oregon State 41

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