Next year, Nike will celebrate co-founder and chairman emeritus Phil Knight’s 85th birthday with another basketball tournament featuring the brand’s top 16 basketball teams. Once again, Kentucky will not participate.
Last night, Jon Rothstein shared the tentative field for the PK85, which is expected to take place in Portland, Oregon in November 2022: Duke, North Carolina, Villanova, UConn, Xavier, West Virginia, Iowa State, Purdue, Michigan State, Alabama, Florida, Gonzaga, Oregon, Oregon State, Portland, and Portland State. Like its predecessor, the PK80, the event is expected to consist of two eight-team tournaments at Portland’s Moda Center and Memorial Coliseum.