ST. LOUIS -- For the ninth-straight year, CBS Sports Network will televise a package of Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball games, including the State Farm MVC Tournament semifinals and eight regular-season contests, MVC Commissioner Jeff Jackson announced today.
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The CBS Television Network, which has aired every title game of the MVC Tournament since 2006, will televise the 2024 championship tilt on March 10, with the game also available to stream live on Paramount+.
The 2023-24 regular-season package of games on CBS Sports Network begins with Southern Illinois’ participation in the Cancun Challenge. The Salukis open with James Madison (Nov. 21) and will either meet Fresno State or New Mexico State the following day.
Non-conference coverage continues with Southern Illinois playing host to Oklahoma State on Dec. 5 and Murray State entertaining SMU on Dec. 22.
The league telecast schedule tips off after the start of the year, as 2023 NCAA Tournament participant Drake plays host to Illinois State (Jan. 2) at Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
Pre-determined January telecasts include Belmont playing host to Northern Iowa on Wednesday, Jan. 17, and UNI entertaining SIU on Saturday, Jan. 20.
The January schedule concludes with 2023 MVC regular-season champion and NIT participant Bradley hosting a pair of contests -- Murray State on Jan. 24 and UNI on Jan. 31 -- at Carver Arena in Peoria, Illinois.
The Conference and CBS Sports will utilize the Wildcard Selection process to determine the final regular-season telecast on Saturday, Feb. 3.
As part of the Wildcard Selection process, CBS Sports Network will announce its telecast selection 14 days from competition.
CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2024 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Tournament -- known uniquely as “Arch Madness” -- will include the semifinals on March 9 on CBS Sports Network. The championship contest on March 10 will air at 1 p.m. Central on CBS and will be available to stream live on Paramount+.
The 2024 tournament -- the 34th consecutive MVC event in St. Louis -- will mark the 19th-straight year that CBS Sports has televised the title game. The semifinals will be shown on CBS Sports Network for the ninth-consecutive year.
In fact, The Valley is one of four leagues -- Atlantic 10, Big Ten and Mountain West -- to have its men’s basketball tournament final shown on CBS.
In 2020, the Missouri Valley joined the Big East (New York City) as the only Division I athletics conferences to conduct their men’s basketball tournaments in the same city for 30 or more consecutive years.