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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

frogsnouts wrote: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

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

That is University of Portland as chaminade

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

lukeyrid13 wrote: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.

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

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

greenyellow wrote: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.

oregontrack wrote: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.

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

DarronThomas5 wrote: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.

maxduck wrote:

DarronThomas5 wrote: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.