In recent years, Creighton has not played well against Illinois State. Last season’s team went 1-2 against ISU, losing in the semifinals of the MVC Tournament in a laugher. Take away Creighton’s win over the Redbirds during last season’s senior day festivities, and the past few seasons have been frustrating for the Jays against Illinois State.
Dana Altman’s teams are 17-16 versus ISU, but his Bluejays have past success in Normal: CU has won 5 of its last 10 games at Redbird Arena. Still, Creighton hasn’t won in Normal since February 2005, when Nate Funk scored 20 points (becoming the 29th player in CU history to score more than 1,000 points) to lead the Jays past the Redbirds. Will this be the season Altman’s team picks up another win on the road against Illinois State? Osiris Eldridge’s ISU teams are yet to have lost to Creighton at home.
At White & Blue Review, we want to make sure you are always aware of the different media at your disposal for keeping track of every Bluejays game, home and away. Here are the different viewing and tracking options for Wednesday night’s 7 p.m. game at Illinois State.
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 705 (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 TWC channel 3.
- On satellite with DirecTV and Dish Network, those with the Omaha DMA will have it on their local CBS channel (KMTV).
- Those with old style satellites can try these coordinates:
Galaxy 16 K6 6A Digital
U/L – 14.104.13H
D/L – 11.804.13V
Online
There are several ways to follow the game via the Internet:
- You can listen to the audio online at Big Sports 590 AM in Omaha.
- Keep up with the Live Stats from GoCreighton.com.
- For a different perspective, you can click this link and listen to the Redbird broadcast on GoRedbirds.com.
- There will be a video webcast by Illinois State. To sign up to purchase, visit the ISU website for the Redbird All Access. Subscribers to Creighton’s annual or monthly pass on GoCreighton.com should have the Illinois State game added to their subscription and be able to receive the video feed at no additional cost because of an agreement between Creighton and Illinois State.
- ISURedbirds.com will be hosting a gameday blog for fans to participate in during the game.
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 Kevin Sarver on Big Sports 590 AM.
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).
For our readers in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, the game will also be broadcast by Frank Santore on WCKY (1530 AM).
Do you have other ways to follow the game? Let us know in the comments section.