The Missouri Valley Conference is off to a wild start. Six teams sit atop the league with a 2-1 record, thanks to some uncharacteristic home losses and some surprising starts by others.
The Creighton Bluejays take their 2-1 MVC mark to Peoria, Illinois, Saturday for a game against the Bradley Braves. If you aren’t hitting the road to watch the games in person, here is how you can follow the 7:00 p.m. tip from anywhere.
Television
The game will be broadcast by Omaha’s local CBS station KMTV, otherwise known as Action3 News. Travis Justice and Nick Bahe will have the call.
- If you still have the rabbit ears on your TV, it is available over the air in the metro and surrounding areas.
- For those with cable systems, it is available on Cox channel 5 or 1005 (but no HD) in the Omaha metro. In Lincoln and other surrounding Time Warner Cable outlets in Nebraska stretching as far west as York and as far south as Fairbury and Nebraska City, it is available on Time Warner Cable channel 3.
- On satellite with DirecTV and Dish Network, those with the Omaha DMA will have it on their local CBS channel which is KMTV. However, those with old style satellites will be out of luck since there are no satellite coordinates.
- Nationwide, the KMTV broadcast will be available on the ESPN Full Court PPV package.
For fans in the Peoria and surrounding areas, the game will also be carried on WTVP World 47.2 which is part of the Peoria PBS affiliate using their own TV/camera crew. Here is how you can tune into that broadcast.
- Through rabbit ears on channel 47.2
- Digital converter box on channel 47.2
- Comcast digital cable channel 218 in Peoria, Morton, Pekin, Canton, Bloomington/Normal and Galesburg areas.
- Mediacom digital cable channel 121 in Fairbury, Atlanta, LeRoy, Heyworth and McLean County.
Online:
There are several ways to follow the game via the Internet:
- You can watch the KMTV broadcast streaming live on your PC or XBox 360 through ESPN3.com if your internet provider carries this access. All of the major cable companieS (Cox, Time Warner, Charter) carry ESPN3.com on their internet service. You can also access ESPN3 through your Android or iPhone with the Watch ESPN app.
- Keep up with the live stats from Bradley and follow their in-game chat. Follow the stats on your mobile device at BravesMobile.com
- Follow the tweets of GoCreighton for score updates.
- Follow the tweets of Steve Pivovar from the Omaha World-Herald for insight during the game.
- Listen to the streaming audio of the broadcast by AM 590, Omaha’s ESPN Radio.
- Listen to the Bradley broadcast on WMBD 1470 online.
Radio:
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 Brody Deren on AM 590, Omaha’s ESPN Radio.
For those in the Peoria area, you can pick up the Bradley broadcast of the game on AM 1470 WMBD
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Of course if you have other ways of following the game, you can leave them in the comments.