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It has officially been announced for November 23rd - 26th. There are two, eight-team tournaments that will occur. Teams in the same conference will not be placed in the same tournament.

Teams: Arkansas, Butler, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Portland, Portland State, Stanford and Texas.

Very elite field. I am very, very excited for Butler -- obviously -- but I'm also pumped for Georgetown. It'll be a helluva cool event.

My guess:

UNC, Oregon, Michigan St, Florida, Uconn, Texas, Portland, Georgetown
Duke, Stanford, Ohio St, Arkansas, Gonzaga, Oklahoma, Portland St, Butler

milksteak wrote:It has officially been announced for November 23rd - 26th. There are two, eight-team tournaments that will occur. Teams in the same conference will not be placed in the same tournament.

Teams: Arkansas, Butler, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Portland, Portland State, Stanford and Texas.

Very elite field. I am very, very excited for Butler -- obviously -- but I'm also pumped for Georgetown. It'll be a helluva cool event.

Let me guess, you must be a Nike contract school to be invited right?

hoyahooligan wrote:My guess:

UNC, Oregon, Michigan St, Florida, Uconn, Texas, Portland, Georgetown
Duke, Stanford, Ohio St, Arkansas, Gonzaga, Oklahoma, Portland St, Butler

yeah it'd be those either/or combo's. I'd think your combos would be pretty much on- except Duke and UNC probably flip. Duke in the higher one and UNC in the lower one.

NJRedman wrote:

milksteak wrote:It has officially been announced for November 23rd - 26th. There are two, eight-team tournaments that will occur. Teams in the same conference will not be placed in the same tournament.

Teams: Arkansas, Butler, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Portland, Portland State, Stanford and Texas.

Very elite field. I am very, very excited for Butler -- obviously -- but I'm also pumped for Georgetown. It'll be a helluva cool event.

Let me guess, you must be a Nike contract school to be invited right?

Correct.

Xavier was originally scheduled to play this tournament in 2012. Not sure what happened. Since we joined the BE, maybe it was too many BE teams.

BEX wrote:Xavier was originally scheduled to play this tournament in 2012. Not sure what happened. Since we joined the BE, maybe it was too many BE teams.

This is correct. Butler and Xavier were going to be the A10 picks.

stever20 wrote:

hoyahooligan wrote:My guess:

UNC, Oregon, Michigan St, Florida, Uconn, Texas, Portland, Georgetown
Duke, Stanford, Ohio St, Arkansas, Gonzaga, Oklahoma, Portland St, Butler

yeah it'd be those either/or combo's. I'd think your combos would be pretty much on- except Duke and UNC probably flip. Duke in the higher one and UNC in the lower one.

I put UNC in the higher one because they have closer ties to Nike, same reason Georgetown gets the nod in the higher bracket.

BEX wrote:Xavier was originally scheduled to play this tournament in 2012. Not sure what happened. Since we joined the BE, maybe it was too many BE teams.

First Xavier gets hosed out of the Big Ten challenge and now this. Too bad.

Omaha1 wrote:

BEX wrote:Xavier was originally scheduled to play this tournament in 2012. Not sure what happened. Since we joined the BE, maybe it was too many BE teams.

First Xavier gets hosed out of the Big Ten challenge and now this. Too bad.

Don't get that started up again