For the eighth consecutive 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 events, 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 broadcast the 2023 title fight on March 5, with the game also available to stream live on Paramount+.
In 2018, CBS Sports and MVC agreed to a multi-year extension through 2023-24 to televise MVC men’s basketball games on the CBS Television Network and CBS Sports Network.
The 2022-23 regular season game package on CBS Sports Network begins with Bradley’s participation (November 22-23) in the Cancun Challenge.
Bradley meets Auburn (Nov. 22) and will take on either Liberty or Northwestern the next day.
The league‘s broadcast schedule ends before the start of the year when Drake hosts Valparaiso (December 29) at the Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
Coverage of the 2023 portion of the schedule begins Jan. 7 as the conference uses wildcard selection to determine television shows on CBS Sports Network for the first of four times.
As part of the wildcard selection process, CBS Sports Network will announce its television selections 14 days after the contest. The remaining wildcard selection dates are February 4th, February 19th and February 26th.
Prescheduled January broadcasts include NIT competitor 2022 Belmont hosting NCAA tournament competitor 2022 Murray State on Tuesday, January 17 at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., and Drake hosting Indiana State on Tuesday, January 24 .January, entertains.
The final pre-determined telecast will be Tuesday, February 21 when NIT competitor Missouri State 2022 hosts Murray State at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri.
CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2023 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Tournament — known as “Arch Madness” — includes the semifinals on March 4 on CBS Sports Network. The championship competition on March 5 will be broadcast at 1 p.m. Centrally located on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live on Paramount+.
The 2023 tournament — the 33rd consecutive MVC event in St. Louis — marks the 18th consecutive year that CBS Sports has televised the title game. The semifinals will be shown on CBS Sports Network for the eighth consecutive year.
In fact, the Missouri Valley Conference is one of four leagues — Atlantic 10, Big Ten, and Mountain West — whose men’s basketball tournament finals air on CBS Sports.
