The early season men's and women's college basketball events – born from the successful PK80 events that helped celebrate the 80th birthday of Phil Knight in 2017 – will once again honor the NIKE, Inc. Six of the eight teams reached the NCAA Tournament last season, including national runner-up North Carolina and semifinalist Villanova. The accomplished field has a combined 212 NCAA Tournament appearances, 45 Final Fours and 16 NCAA titles. On Sunday, the championship game will be at Moda Center, third place game at VMC and fifth and seventh place games at the Chiles Center on the University of Portland campus. The other half of the bracket's first round games include North Carolina playing Portland and Villanova playing Iowa State.Įach team in the PKI men's bracket will play its Thursday game at Moda Center and its Friday game at Veterans Memorial Coliseum (VMC), both of which are located on the Rose Quarter campus.
This will be just the third all-time meeting between Michigan State and Alabama and the first since 1998, a 75-58 Spartans win. The loser of that game will play the final game of the night on Friday (12:30 a.m. The winner of the Michigan State-Alabama game will play the winner of a matchup between Oregon and UConn (Friday, Nov. The PKI multi-team tournament will feature eight men's teams and four women's teams competing during ESPN's annual Feast Week, Thursday, Nov. ET, ESPN), announced on Monday afternoon by ESPN Events. – Michigan State's men's basketball team will play Alabama in the first round of the Phil Knight Invitational on Thursday, Nov.