PORTLAND, Ore. -- A 16-team tournament featuring some of college basketballs elite teams will be staged next year in Portland to honor Nike co-founder Phil Knight before his 80th birthday.The PK80, or more formally the Phil Knight Invitational, will be played at Portlands Moda Center and Memorial Coliseum on Nov. 23-26, 2017.Participating teams include Arkansas, Butler, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Portland, Portland State, Stanford and Texas.The event, billed as one of the largest regular-season invitational tournaments ever, includes nine of the past 13 NCAA champions.To be in Portland, in and around where Phils had a tremendous impact to the community, the impact of Nike from the business perspective, employment, and all the things that come along with it, it seemed like a real natural, said Chris Oxley, senior vice president of venue operations for the two arenas. We couldnt be more excited to have this tournament.Nikes headquarters are in Beaverton, Oregon, just west of Portland.The teams will be divided into two groups of eight and each group will compete for a bracket title. All the games will be broadcast on ESPN.Only two teams from each conference were allowed, and Knight holds degrees from Oregon and Stanford, so that did not allow room for Oregon State or Arizona.Oregon coach Dana Altman, who led the Ducks to an appearance in the Elite Eight at the NCAA Tournament last year, called the event an excellent way to celebrate Phil Knight.He has done so much, not just for the University of Oregon, but all of college basketball, Altman said in a statement. We are honored to be a part of the PK80 tournament.Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski echoed the sentiment: PK80 is a unique way we can honor him and the contributions he has made not just to the game of basketball, but to all of sport. Wholesale Nike Shox Womens . 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Umberger scored twice to lead the Blue Jackets to a franchise-record for consecutive wins with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Kings.There was only one game in the NHL playoffs Saturday, and the Pittsburgh Penguins escaped with a series win despite getting soundly outplayed in Game Six. Scott Cullen has stats and notes from the Islanders-Penguins series. Brooks Orpik scored in overtime to give the Penguins a 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders, taking the first-round playoff series in six games. It was Orpiks first goal since November, 21, 2011, against the Islanders. It was his first playoff goal in his 78th career playoff game. What this series showed, however, was that the Islanders werent merely trying to hang on and miraculously compete with the top-seeded Penguins. Rather, the Islanders were the team pushing the pace of play more often. In Game Six, the Isles outshot the Penguins 38-21 and for the entire series the Islanders outshot the Penguins by five shots per game (32.8 to 27.8). Nevertheless, the Penguins earned a top seed during the regular season even though their shot differential was a mediocre +0.8, but a sizzling power play (33.3% vs. the Islanders) helped the Penguins win more than their standard shot differentials would suggest. The Islanders power play, by comparison, was 2-for-20 (10.0%) in the series. In the clinching game, Penguins D Paul Martin had a goal and an assist, with a team-high five blocked shots while playing a team-leading 30:03. The Islanders got a couple of points in Game Six from LW Michael Grabnner (1 G, 1 A, +2) and C Keith Aucoin (2 A).dddddddddddd LW Josh Bailey led all shooters with six shots on goal. Islanders LW Matt Martin had 11 hits in 12:00 time on ice in Game Six, giving him a playoff-leading 41 hits through six games. John Tavares and Mark Streit led the Islanders with five points in six games, while Tavares, Matt Moulson and Travis Hamonic tied with a team-worst minus-4 rating. Bailey and C Frans Nielsen were the most snakebitten Islanders in the series, failing to score despite registering 16 shots on goal. As might be anticipated, Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby were the Penguins top scorers, with 11 and nine points, respectively, but they had help. RW Jarome Iginla had nine points, RW Pascal Dupuis had five goals and seven points, while defencemen Martin and Kris Letang each had six points. Martin led the Penguins with a plus-5 rating. The overriding sense of the Penguins effort in Round One is that they relied on their superior skill too often and it very nearly cost them. They were bailed out by G Tomas Vokoun, who stopped 66 of 69 shots (.957 SV%) in the last two games, but they arent necessarily going to have a goaltending advantage when they face Craig Anderson and the Ottawa Senators in Round Two. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. ' ' '