Editor: The following is part of a press release from mvc-sports.com.
(St. Louis, MO) – The Missouri Valley Conference will distribute a men’s and women’s basketball telecast package on Bally Sports Networks and NBC Sports Chicago in 2023-24.
The Valley, with Kansas City-based LTN Global Communications serving as its production company, has worked in conjunction with Bally Sports Midwest — along with its sister regional outlets Bally Sports Indiana, Bally Sports Kansas City, Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast — and NBC Sports Chicago to clear the telecasts.
The Valley on ESPN — the league’s co-branded digital platform via the ESPN app — will distribute the productions nationally, including the networks’ combined 13-state footprint of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Telecasts shown within the regional sports networks’ distribution area will also be streamed on the Bally Sports app and available at BallySports.com.
The league telecast schedule tips off with two pre-Christmas men’s basketball productions, as Northern Iowa plays host to Belmont (Nov. 29) and Murray State travels to Illinois State (Dec. 3).
The league will also produce and distribute three linear regular-season, women’s basketball games — Belmont at Drake (Jan. 19), Drake at UNI (Feb. 2) and Illinois State at Missouri State (March 2).
The three linear women’s basketball productions represent the highest total for the Conference since the 2013-14 academic year, when it distributed six regular-season games.
The 2024 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Championship — the league’s 34th-consecutive event in St. Louis — on March 7-10 will feature 11 games with the first eight contests being shown on Bally Sports and NBC Sports Chicago.
All four opening-round games on March 7 and the four quarterfinal tilts on March 8 will air on Bally Sports Midwest-Indiana-Kansas City-South-Southeast, NBC Sports Chicago and ESPN+ nationally and throughout the league’s six-state footprint of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.
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Murray State's scheduled home game Wednesday vs. Southern Illinois being moved to Banterra Center in Carbondale. #ValleyHoops
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