ST. LOUIS -- Celebrating its 112th season, the Missouri Valley Conference will have an exclusive 100-event package on ESPN networks during the 2018-19 academic year, Commissioner Doug Elgin announced today. Of those 100 games, at least 10 will feature the Sycamores on the ESPN family of networks, plus 14 others which will be institutional products on The Valley on ESPN -- the league's co-branded digital network with ESPN available through the ESPN App. The Valley on ESPN features productions for ESPN3 and ESPN+.
The Valley, which enters the fifth year of a 10-year agreement with ESPN, will clear 37 men's basketball matchups on ESPN networks -- ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, SEC Network and ESPN3, as well as ESPN+, the first-ever multi-sport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service from The Walt Disney Company's Direct-to-Consumer and International group, in partnership with ESPN.