PEORIA, Ill. -- Tickets remain available for Wednesday's Missouri Valley Conference clash between league co-leader Creighton (14-7, 8-3) and Bradley (15-8, 6-5) at Carver Arena. The Braves have drawn sellout crowds to each of their last two home games, including a record 11,444 for last week's victory against Illinois State, and Bradley is attempting for its third straight crowd in excess of 10,500 for the first time in program history.
Preparing for the fourth giveaway promotion of the year, Bradley will distribute red pom-pons, courtesy of Methodist Medical Center, to everyone in attendance Wednesday night. Tickets are $18, $12 and $8, based on location, for the general public. Bradley University faculty and staff may purchase tickets for half-price and Bradley University students may purchase student section tickets for $1. Tickets are available at the Robertson Fieldhouse Box Office (309-677-2625), the Carver Arena Box Office (309-673-3200) and all TicketMaster outlets.
Due to television coverage on Fox Sports Midwest, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and Fox College Sports, Wednesday's game will tip off at 7:35 p.m., a half-hour later than normal.
TWO TELEVISION APPEARANCES ADDED TO SCHEDULE
Monday's announcement that the Braves will be included in the television package for the 2007 O'Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters is not the only television addition to the Bradley men's basketball schedule. Peoria NBC affiliate, WEEK, has agreed to broadcast Bradley's visit to Evansville Feb. 14. The 7:05 p.m. game versus the Purple Aces will be the fifth WEEK telecast of the season.
Although it is known that the Bradley-VCU game Feb. 17 in the O'Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters will be televised on the ESPN family of networks, the game time and specific network will be announced in the coming days. The 14 telecasts in the package will be aired on ESPNU and ESPN2.
NO VIDEO STREAMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Due to the contract between the Missouri Valley Conference and Fox SportsNet, a video stream of Wednesday night's Bradley-Creighton game, as well as next week's game at Southern Illinois, the video stream will not be availabe in the subscription package at bubraves.com. The next available video stream in the package will be Saturday's 7:05 p.m. game at I-74 rival Illinois State.
