OMAHA, Neb. -- After a two-night stay at the Creighton University Medical Center, longtime Bradley men's basketball play-by-play broadcaster Dave Snell is scheduled to return home this afternoon.

Snell, 51, was discharged from the hospital this morning, but his paperwork was not processed in time for him to make his scheduled 10:42 a.m. flight out of Omaha's Eppley Airfield.  He is now scheduled to depart Omaha at 4:36 this afternoon.  Although he does plan to attend Saturday night's game versus Indiana State, Snell has decided not to provide the play-by-play call for the WMBD AM 1470 broadcast and will hand over those duties temporarily to popular morning show and Braves Plus pregame show host Dan DiOrio.

A Bradley University graduate, Snell is in his 27th season as Bradley's play-by-play broadcaster for WMBD, taking over the position for the start of the 1979-80 season.  He had called the action for 794 consecutive games before taking ill Wednesday afternoon.  Because he did conduct the interviews for Wednesday night's pregame show, his streak for consecutive Bradley Basketball broadcasts now stands at 795 and is expected to continue Saturday night by joining DiOrio for a pregame segment.  In addition, Snell has been in attendance for all 333 games Bradley has played at Carver Arena since the facility opened for the 1982-83 season.

Snell was complaining of feeling ill as he began preparing for Wednesday night's Bradley game at Creighton, then passed out while sitting at his broadcast position with about 50 minutes remaining on the pregame clock.  He was revived by former Bradley Baseball player Jeff Doeden and quickly treated by the Qwest Center medical staff, before being taken by ambulance to the Creighton University Medical Center, where he has remained since Wednesday night. 

Snell reports that a battery of tests ruled out the incident being heart-related and it is now thought he was suffering from a viral infection.  Once his fever broke early this morning, he was cleared to be released.