Phil Knight 2017 Tournament

[frogsnouts]

Pretty far off, but apparently they have set up a 16 team tournament for the 80th birthday of Phil Knight. The list of teams is pretty impressive, and I suppose Oregon is guaranteed 3 games with these heavyweight programs. It will be held in Portland, so likely a Rose Garden event.

Hopefully we can be competitive against these guys in 5 years.

Teams:
Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, Michigan State, Florida, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Georgetown, Stanford, Oregon, Butler, Xavier, Portland and Gonzaga

(Apparently 1 team is missing, perhaps Oregon State?)

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/22 ... nt_In_2017

[KeenanHowry15]

Pretty far off, but apparently they have set up a 16 team tournament for the 80th birthday of Phil Knight. The list of teams is pretty impressive, and I suppose Oregon is guaranteed 3 games with these heavyweight programs. It will be held in Portland, so likely a Rose Garden event.

Hopefully we can be competitive against these guys in 5 years.

Teams:
Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, Michigan State, Florida, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Georgetown, Stanford, Oregon, Butler, Xavier, Portland and Gonzaga

(Apparently 1 team is missing, perhaps Oregon State?)

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/22 ... nt_In_2017

Texas

[chapelhillduck]

Please don't let us be the Chaminade Hawaii of this tournament...

[cordy02c]

That is University of Portland as chaminade

[lukeyrid13]

wow that is really sick for residents of Oregon......not so good for our team as we will start out 0-3 for sure. this is pretty sick

[gogreen55]

not so good for our team as we will start out 0-3 for sure. this is pretty sick

We have no idea what the Oregon basketball team, or any of those other teams, will look like 5 years from now.

[oregontrack]

without question the greatest line-up for a preseason tourney, ever.

[greenyellow]

Looks like the event will be broken up into 2, 8-team tournaments since NCAA rules prohibit teams from the same conference playing in the same tournament.

http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.s ... ament.html

[UOducksTK1]

Looks like the event will be broken up into 2, 8-team tournaments since NCAA rules prohibit teams from the same conference playing in the same tournament.

http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.s ... ament.html

That is a loaded group, should be fun. Hopefully Ducks a solid squad then, so we don't get pushed around.

[Duck07]

without question the greatest line-up for a preseason tourney, ever.

That line-up also looks to be an above-average Sweet 16 bracket, too.

[DarronThomas5]

Based on national success/relevancy and two teams per conference for the tourney I think Syracuse belongs there instead of Georgetown

[maxduck]

Based on national success/relevancy and two teams per conference for the tourney I think Syracuse belongs there instead of Georgetown

However, John Thompson, former Georgetown coach and father of the current G-Town coach, is on the Nike Board of Directors.

[DarronThomas5]

Based on national success/relevancy and two teams per conference for the tourney I think Syracuse belongs there instead of Georgetown

However, John Thompson, former Georgetown coach and father of the current G-Town coach, is on the Nike Board of Directors.

Their involvement now makes more sense to me.