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.
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| Sport | College basketball |
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| Founded | 2017 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| 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
editThe 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
editCampus site games
edit| 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
edit| Fifth Place Game November 26 | Consolation Second Round November 24 | Quarterfinals November 23 | Semifinals November 24 | Championship November 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Seventh Place Game | DePaul | 79 | 4 | Michigan State | 77 | Third Place Game | |||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 89* | UConn | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 69 | UConn | 71 | Arkansas | 102 | ||||||||||||||||||
| DePaul | 82 | Oregon | 63 | UConn | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
All-Tournament team
edit| Player | School |
|---|---|
| Cassius Winston (MVP) | Michigan State |
| Jaylen Barford | Arkansas |
| Trae Young | Oklahoma |
| Luke Maye | North Carolina |
| Joshua Langford | Michigan State |
Motion Bracket
editCampus site games
edit| 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
edit| Fifth Place Game November 26 | Consolation Second Round November 24 | Quarterfinals November 23 | Semifinals November 24 | Championship November 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seventh Place Game | Stanford | 71 | 7 | Florida | 111** | Third Place Game | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 79 | 17 | Gonzaga | 105 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portland State | 87 | 17 | Gonzaga | 86 | Texas | 71 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 78 | Ohio State | 59 | 17 | Gonzaga | 76* | |||||||||||||||||
All-Tournament team
edit| Player | School |
|---|---|
| Marvin Bagley III (MVP) | Duke |
| KeVaughn Allen | Florida |
| Chris Chiozza | Florida |
| Jalen Hudson | Florida |
| Johnathan Williams | Gonzaga |
Sub-regional games
edit| Sub-Regional Game 1 November 24 | Sub-Regional Game 2 November 24 | ||||||||
| Northeastern | 67 | ||||||||
| New Hampshire | 64 | Utah State | 71 | ||||||
| Furman | 78 | ||||||||
| Sub-Regional Game 3 November 25 | Sub-Regional Game 4 November 25 | ||||||||
| Furman | 78 | ||||||||
| Utah State | 77 | Northeastern | 67 | ||||||
| New Hampshire | 63 | ||||||||
2019 event
editOn 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
edit| November 12 | ||||
| 14 | Oregon | 82 | ||
| 13 | Memphis | 74 | ||
| November 12 | ||||
| Oklahoma | 77 | |||
| Oregon State | 69 | |||
2022 event
editOn 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
editMen's bracket
editGame 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina | 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 83 | 1 | North Carolina | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 71 | Iowa State | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 81* | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 77 | Iowa State | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Michigan State | 78 | 20 | UConn | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | UConn | 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7th Place Game – Chiles | Oregon | 70 | 20 | UConn | 82 | 3rd Place Game – VMC | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Michigan State | 74 | 18 | Alabama | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 67 | 12 | Michigan State | 70 | 1 | North Carolina | 101 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 74 | 18 | Alabama | 81 | 18 | Alabama | 103**** | ||||||||||||||||
* – Denotes overtime period
Women's bracket
edit| 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
editMen's bracket
editGame 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Duke | 54 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 68 | 8 | Duke | 71 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Florida | 81 | Xavier | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida | 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida | 55 | 8 | Duke | 56 | |||||||||||||||||||
| West Virginia | 84 | 24 | Purdue | 75 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Purdue | 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| West Virginia | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7th Place Game – Chiles | West Virginia | 89 | 24 | Purdue | 84 | 3rd Place Game – VMC | |||||||||||||||||
| Portland State | 71 | 6 | Gonzaga | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 71 | 6 | Gonzaga | 102 | Xavier | 84 | |||||||||||||||||
| Portland State | 83 | Portland State | 78 | 6 | Gonzaga | 88 | |||||||||||||||||
Women's bracket
edit| 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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