ST. LOUIS – Southern Illinois basketball will be seen nationally on CBS Sports Network at least four times during the 2023-24 season as the Missouri Valley Conference announced its basketball slate across the CBS Sports platform Thursday.
The 2023-24 regular-season package of games on CBS Sports Network begins with Southern Illinois’ participation in the Cancun Challenge. The Salukis open with James Madison (Nov. 21) and will either meet Fresno State or New Mexico State the following day.
Non-conference coverage continues with Southern Illinois playing host to Oklahoma State on December 5 at 8 p.m. CT.
The final pre-determined national broadcast will be on January 20 when the Salukis travel to Northern Iowa with a 7 p.m. tip.
The Conference and CBS Sports will utilize the Wildcard Selection process to determine the final regular season telecast on Saturday, Feb. 3. As part of the Wildcard Selection process, CBS Sports Network will announce its telecast selection 14 days from competition.
Postseason coverage from the 2024 State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Tournament — known uniquely as Arch Madness — in St. Louis includes four opening-round games on March 7 and four quarterfinal contests on March 8. Those telecasts are distributed on linear platforms Bally Sports Midwest-Indiana-Kansas City-South-Southeast and NBC Sports Chicago plus live digitally on ESPN+ within the league’s six-state footprint of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee for the first time. The Arch Madness semifinals on March 9 and the title game on March 10 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 championship game of Arch Madness every year since 2006 after ESPN or ESPN2 had served as television home for the title tilt from 1991 to 2005. In 2020, the Missouri Valley joined the Big East (New York City) as the only Division I athletics conferences to conduct their men’s basketball tournaments in the same city for 30 or more consecutive years.