(St. Louis, MO) – Fans of the Valley basketball conferences have a good friend in CBS Sports Network. Both the Missouri Valley and Ohio Valley Conferences are receiving increased exposure through this giant in the basketball broadcasting industry.
MVC teams will be featured on CBS Sports Network 10 times and OVC teams will land on the single-eye network seven. One of the truly exciting features of these new agreements is that CBS Sports Network will also broadcast the semi-final rounds of Arch Madness (March 5, 2016) prior to Sunday’s nationally televised game on CBS Sports.
Senior Vice President Dan Weinberg of CBS Sports Network told me the marriage between his network and the MVC made sense for both parties.
CBS Sports Network airs more than 400 live sporting events annually and is increasingly becoming the voice of college basketball. Weinberg says CBS Sports Network is a part of a synergistic approach their company is taking. Fans will notice every broadcast, regardless of the platform will look and feel the same.
OVC fans will see some great rivalry games on CBS Sports Network. January 2nd Morehead State visits Murray State and both of those teams will be on the network two more times. Morehead hosts Eastern Kentucky on February 11 and pre-season favorite Belmont on February 13. The Racers return to CBS Sports Network for at game at UT Martin on January 30th and for a visit to Eastern Illinois on February 25th. Rounding out the schedule, Eastern Illinois hosts Eastern Kentucky on January 14th and Southern Illinois Edwardsville entertains Southeast Missouri on January 28th
There are seven pre-arranged regular season games and one wild card selection in the MVC package. Wichita State can be seen three times (January 9 at Southern Illinois, January 27 hosting Loyola and February 18 hosting Missouri State). The other scheduled games are January 19th when Evansville entertains Loyola, February 6th when Northern Iowa visits Drake, February 11th as Illinois State visits Evansville and the 20th of February Northern Iowa hosts Illinois State.
The wild-card game will be February 27th.
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