Missouri Valley Announces Men's Basketball Package on ESPN Platforms (2025)

Missouri Valley Announces Men's Basketball Package on ESPN Platforms (1)ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley Conference will have an exclusive 39-game men’s basketball schedule on ESPN platforms during the 2024-25 academic year, Commissioner Jeff Jackson announced Tuesday.

The Valley -- in its first year of a five-year agreement with ESPN -- will clear productions on ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN+, the leading sports streaming service.

Additional regular-season men’s basketball games produced by MVC institutions will be delivered exclusively through The Valley on ESPN -- the league’s co-branded digital network with ESPN available through the ESPN App.

Men’s basketball coverage begins in November, as Bradley, Drake and Northern Iowa will compete in three neutral-site, multi-team events presented on ESPN platforms.

Bradley will play in the Myrtle Beach Invitational in Conway, South Carolina, and meet Texas State in an ESPNU first-round contest on Nov. 21 with a possible second match-up against Wright State or Princeton on Nov. 22 on ESPNU. The Braves final game will be on Nov. 24 against either Ohio, Middle Tennessee, South Florida or Portland.

Drake will participate in the Shriners Children’s Classic in Charleston, South Carolina, and meet Miami (Fla.) in an ESPN2 or ESPNU first-round contest on Nov. 21 with a possible second match-up against Oklahoma State or Florida Atlantic on Nov. 22 on either ESPN2 or ESPNU. The Bulldogs’ final contest will be on Nov. 24 against either Seton Hall, VCU, Vanderbilt or Nevada.

UNI will compete in the NIT Season Tip-off in Orlando, Florida, and meet North Texas in an ESPNU first-round contest on Nov. 28 with a possible second match-up against Utah State or St. Bonaventure on Nov. 29 on either ESPN2 or ESPNU.

Multi-team event participation continues for the Conference in December, as Murray State will compete in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu.

The Racers will meet Nebraska in an ESPN2 first-round tilt on Dec. 22 and will play either Charlotte or Hawaii in a second-round ESPN2 contest. The Racers’ final game will be on Dec. 25 versus Oregon State, Charleston, Loyola (Illinois) or Oakland.

In terms of MVC regular-season tilts, there will be four games on ESPN2 and a total of six contests on ESPNU.

For eight of the 10 telecasts, ESPN and The Valley will utilize a Wildcard Selection process to determine which game will be aired on a specific date.

As part of the Wildcard Selection process, ESPN, working in tandem with league staff, will announce its telecast selection 14 days from competition. The Wildcard Selection dates are Jan. 5 and 18, Feb. 1, 2, 8, 16 and 22and March 2.

The two pre-determined contests -- either on ESPN2 or ESPNU -- will occur on Tuesday, Feb. 4, when Drake visits Murray State at CFSB Center in Murray, Kentucky, and on Sunday, Feb. 23, Drake travels to McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to meet UNI.

The Valley has also selected an 18-game, regular-season digital exclusive men’s basketball package streaming on ESPN+.

The slate, which includes all league games, features three December contests -- Bradley at Southern Illinois, Indiana State at Missouri State and Belmont at Drake.

The schedule resumes on Jan. 2, when Illinois State travels to Murray State for the first of eight January league-selected shows.

There will be a total of seven productions in February with four pre-determined and the remaining three utilizing the Wildcard Selection process -- Feb. 8, 16 and 22.

Postseason coverage from the 2025 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Tournament -- known uniquely as Arch Madness -- in St. Louis includes four opening-round games on March 6 and four quarterfinal contests on March 7.

Those telecasts are distributed on Gray Media linear over-the-air stations within the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee and available nationally on ESPN+

The Arch Madness semifinals on March 8 and the title game on March 9 will be shown on CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports, respectively, as part of a sublicense agreement between ESPN and CBS Sports.

CBS Sports has carried the title contest of Arch Madness every year since 2006 after ESPN or ESPN2 had served as the television home for that telecast from 1991 to 2005.

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