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Portland to Participate in PK80 Honoring Phil Knight

PORTLAND, Ore. – The University of Portland men's basketball team will participate in PK80 – Phil Knight Invitational, a 16-team, early-season men's college basketball tournament honoring Nike co-founder and 2012 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Phil Knight in advance of his 80th birthday.

The event will take place over Thanksgiving week in 2017 and is the largest regular-season tournament in college basketball history while sporting a field featuring some of the top schools in the nation. Games will be played Thursday, Nov. 23, Friday, Nov. 24 and Sunday, Nov. 26, from the Rose Quarter's Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum.