The National Ice Skating Championships have taken over the CenturyLink Center for the past several days. As a result, the Creighton men’s basketball team has had to be on the road for three straight MVC games. The first two didn’t turn out as expected against Wichita State and Drake. They are hoping to salvage the road trip with a win against their traditional rival Southern Illinois.
The Bluejays get another opportunity in front of a national audience to show what they can do. If you are not headed to Carbondale to watch the game in person, here are the different ways you can follow the 7:00 p.m. tip.
Television
The Bluejays will be nationally televised on ESPNU and ESPNUHD at 7:00 p.m.. It will be shown in high definition with the all-star crew of Mitch Holthus and Mark Adams on the call.
- In Omaha on Cox Communications cable system it is on digital channel 220 or in HD on channel 1220. You will have to check with your local cable provider to see if you get ESPNU.
- On DirecTV, it is on channel 208.
- On Dish Network, you can find the game on channel 141.
Online
- For people expecting to see it on regular ESPN3, it will not be available for this game. Since it is on ESPNU it will be only available to those subscribers that have access to WatchESPN. You can watch the ESPN3/WatchESPN broadcast streaming live on your PC or XBox 360 through ESPN3.com if your internet provider carries WatchESPN access. Here are a list of video providers that carry WatchESPN. Cox Communications is on this list
- You can access WatchESPN through your Android, iPad, or iPhone with the Watch ESPN app. However, that is limited to those with Bright House, Verizon FiOsTV, Verizon high speed internet and Time Warner subscribers. New to this list is Cox Communications. You can get this if you are a Cox internet subscriber.
- Keep up with the live stats of the game.
- Follow the tweets of GoCreighton for score updates.
- Follow the tweets of White & Blue Review for periodic updates during the game.
- 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 online on your computer.
- Listen to the streaming audio of the broadcast on your mobile device by getting the TuneIn App for your device and searching for AM 590 ESPN Radio. The app is available for pretty much every mobile device out there.
- To see the other side of things, follow the tweets of Southern Illinois beat writer, Todd Hefferman.
- For a different perspective you can listen to the live Southern Illinois stream of the game.
- Bluejay Banter will have live updates as well as a postgame show on AM 590 ESPN after the game.
Radio/Audio
- 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 over the air on AM 590, Omaha’s ESPN Radio.
- 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, as well as St. Louis. Here is a coverage map.
After the game, stay tuned after the AM590 postgame to catch Bluejay Banter and their postgame show live from DJ’s Dugout across from the CenturyLink Center. They will talk to Creighton coaches and others to get the latest on the Bluejays as well as take phone calls.
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As always, feel free to leave comments if there are other ways to follow the game.