On Thursday night, ten teams will begin the dogfight to get the Missouri Valley Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. It has been an interesting conference season and the battle will culminate on Sunday–A full week before the field of 68 is selected.
Missouri State and Wichita State are highly anticipating who they will be matched up with and have less time to prepare compared to Creighton who is quite familiar with their opponent. The Bluejays take on Northern Iowa on Friday afternoon who they faced less than a week ago on Senior Day in Omaha.
This is the second straight season and third in the last four that Creighton has played the same opponent in the first round of the MVC Tournament after finishing the regular season against them. Creighton fans expected at the beginning of the season that a journey through St. Louis would likely be what is needed to get to the NCAA Tournament and this is exactly where things are at. Win three games, go to the Big Dance.
Many are making the trip to the second biggest Mardi Gras in the nation as well as the tournament. White & Blue Review will be down in St. Louis as well taking in every minute and bringing you up to date information throughout Arch Madness. But for those unable to make the trip, we have your following options right here for you to keep track of the Bluejays.
Television
All games of the MVC Tournament, including the Thursday night opening round games will be on TV and all in High Definition!
For Creighton’s game on Friday afternoon, Fox Sports Net will carry the 2:35 PM tip with Dan McLaughlin (PBP), Rich Zvosec (Analyst), Scott Warmann (Host), Tom Ackerman (Sideline) on the broadcast team.
If the Bluejays win that one, they will be in the 1:35 PM game on Saturday with the same broadcast crew.
Here is how you can catch the game if you are in the Omaha metro:
- In the Omaha area, the game will be available on Cox Cable channel 47 and in HD on channel 745.
- The game is available on satellite providers DirecTV channel 671, Dish Network channel 418 and for those with AT&T U-Verse, Channel 748.
- Fox Sports Indiana, Fox Sports Kansas City, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, and KSMO-TV in Kansas City
Sunday’s game will be televised nationally on CBS (Channel 5 and in HD 705) at 1PM with Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkle.
Any other TV questions? Get the rest of your info here.
Online
There are several ways to follow the game via the Internet:
- There will not be an online video stream of the games since they are on TV.
- You can listen to the Creighton audio online on AM 590, Omaha’s ESPN Radio.
- Keep up with the live stats from StatBroadcast.
- Get the stats on your mobile device through GoCreightonStats.com
- Follow the tweets of GoCreighton for score updates.
- Follow the tweets from the Omaha World-Herald, Steve Pivovar, and Steve Takaba.
- Rush the Court will be having live blogs/chats from press row featuring our own Max Univers on their coverage.
- The Missouri Valley Conference website is having their own special online page to follow the games and their live blogs.
For a different audio perspectives here is how you can hear the online broadcasts for the different schools:
- Bradley–You can listen to the Bradley side of things, the audio broadcast is available.
- Drake–You can follow the action on Drake’s online radio broadcast on KRNT online.
- Evansville–For the Evansville side of things, listen here.
- Illinois State–Listen to the streaming audio of the Illinois State broadcast
- Indiana State–Listen to the streaming audio of the Indiana State broadcast.
- Missouri State–You can follow the action on Missouri State’s online radio broadcast on Radio Springfield.
- Northern Iowa–Listen to the streaming audio of the Northern Iowa broadcast.
- Southern Illinois–You can listen to the Saluki radio broadcast online.
- Wichita State–You can listen to the Shockers on Shocker Radio
Radio
All nine games of the State Farm MVC Tournament will air in the St. Louis metro area on 101.1 ESPN FM (WXOS).
The championship game will be carried by Westwood One servicing more than 5000 radio stations around the world. This broadcast will also be available on Sirius/XM.
For the Bluejay broadcasts, if you find yourself traversing the greater Midwest — specifically, the eastern part of Nebraska, Iowa, and even into Missouri — you can pick up T. Scott Marr’s play-by-play along with former Bluejay Nick Bahe on Big Sports 590 AM for the Bluejay broadcast.
Here are the other areas across the United States to hear the other teams in the Valley depending on who the Bluejays may be playing:
- Bradley–If you are in the Peoria/Chicagoland area, you can pick up the Bradley broadcast on WMBD 1470 AM
- Drake–If you happen to be on the road through Nebraska into Iowa and lose the 590 signal as you get closer to Des Moines, you can pick up the Drake broadcast on KRNT Radio (1350 AM) the flagship station of Drake Basketball
- Evansville–If you are in the 6100 watt range of Evansville’s campus radio station WUEV (91.5 FM), you can catch the pro-Purple Aces broadcast there.
- Illinois State–If you are in the greater Bloomington-Normal area, you can pick up the Illinois State side of things flagshipped by WJBC-1230 AM (Bloomington) with affiliates including WJEZ-98.9 FM (Dwight), WFMB-1450 AM (Springfield), and WDZ-1050 AM (Decatur).
- Indiana State–You can hear the game on The Crock, 92.7 FM or ESPN 1300 AM, WBOW on your radio dial
- Missouri State–If you are in the Springfield, Missouri area, you can catch the game on the dial on flagship station KTXR, 101.3 FM or any of the other Missouri State Radio Network affiliates across the state of Missouri including St. Louis and Kansas City markets.
- Northern Iowa–If you find yourself in the greater Cedar Falls area, you can catch the Panthers broadcast on KXEL 1540 AM or on any other of the Panther Radio Network affiliates.
- Southern Illinois–If you are in the Carbondale area, you can pick up the Southern Illinois side of things on flagship WVZA, 105.1 FM and any other Saluki Radio Network affiliates throughout Illinois and parts of Missouri, Kentucky, and Indiana. Here is a coverage map.
- Wichita State–If you are in the Wichita area, you can pick up the Wichita State side of things on 1330 AM News Radio KNSS
As always, if you have any updates of ways to follow the MVC Tournament, feel free to post a message to the comments. We will also post any updates for future Bluejay games in the comments as well.
