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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4317088, member: 10"] [B][I]Nov. 24-27, PK85 Tournament:[/I][/B][I] UConn will be among the teams in this loaded 16-team tournament to be held in Portland, Ore. The field will be separated into two brackets, with UConn in a bracket that also features defending national runner-up North Carolina, as well as Alabama, Iowa State, Michigan State, Oregon, Portland and Villanova. Villanova, you say? How did two Big East teams wind up in the same bracket? Well, when the field was originally formed, shortly after the inaugural PK80 Tournament in 2017 concluded, UConn was still in the American Athletic Conference. Two Big East members were invited, Villanova and Xavier, with the understanding that they would be separated into different brackets. Once UConn joined the Big East, the tournament elected to keep the field as it was and put the Huskies in the same bracket as Villanova. It’s likely the teams will be placed on opposite ends of the bracket, but there still remains a chance that they could meet in what would be a non-conference game. That would mean they’d face each other three times in the regular season alone — and possibly again in the Big East tournament.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ctinsider.com/uconn/article/uconn-mens-basketball-2022-2023-schedule-17171977.php?t=d39bad83ff&src=ctipdensecp[/URL] [/QUOTE]