Arch Madness Stays on CBS

Editor: The following is part of a press release from mvc-sports.com.

MVC and CBS Continue a Partnership

(St. Louis, MO) – For the tenth-straight year, CBS Sports will televise a package of Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball games, including the State Farm MVC Tournament semifinals and eight regular-season contests.

The CBS Television Network, which has aired every title game of the MVC Tournament since 2006, will televise the 2025 championship tilt on March 9, with the game also available to stream live on Paramount+.

The 2024-25 regular-season package of games on CBS Sports Network begins with Belmont’s participation in the Cancun Challenge.

The league schedule tips off after the start of the year, as 2024-25 MVC preseason favorite Bradley plays host to Missouri State on Saturday, January 4.

CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2025 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Tournament — known uniquely as “Arch Madness” — will include the semifinals on March 8 on CBS Sports Network.  The championship contest on March 9 will air at 1:15 p.m. Central on CBS and will be available to stream live on Paramount+.

The 2025 tournament — the 35th consecutive MVC event in St. Louis — will mark the 20th-straight year that CBS Sports has televised the title game.  The semifinals will be shown on CBS Sports Network for the tenth-consecutive year.

In fact, The Valley is one of four leagues — along with the Atlantic 10, Big Ten and Mountain West — to have its men’s basketball tournament final shown on CBS.

In September 2024, the Missouri Valley Conference and CBS Sports announced a multi-year extension, with the Arch Madness title game remaining on CBS and Paramount+ through 2027.

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.