NEW YORK – The fourth season of
This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, dropped Thursday night. The fourth episode featured guests: Villanova junior guard Jalen Brunson, Butler senior forward Kelan Martin and FOX Sports Senior College Basketball Insider and Recruiting Analyst Evan Daniels.
The 2017-18 season of This Week In The BIG EAST is available for download on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher in addition to its Westwood One Distribution. Starting this week, the show will also air on two
Sirius Satellite Radio stations as ESPNU radio has been added in addition to the Sports PXP station. The show will run on Saturday at 6 a.m. ET on ESPNU Radio (Sirius XM Channel 84). Additionally, the show will run on Sirius Sports PXP on Saturday at 11 a.m. (Sirius 108/XM 201 and App Channel 961).
The hosts for This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) are John Rooke, a well-known BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 30 years, and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 28 seasons at the
Providence Journal and is a columnist for
Basketball Times. Rooke and McNamara give a comprehensive look at the teams, coaches, players and storied tradition of the top basketball conference in America in each episode.
This week’s BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Villanova junior guard Jalen Brunson, a standout on the floor for the No.1 Wildcats since he arrived in 2015. He has been named to the mid-season Oscar Robertson Trophy watch list, awarded to the nation’s best player. Butler senior forward Kelan Martin is in the BIG EAST Focus this week. Martin, who is fourth in the BIG EAST in scoring with a 19.7 average, is the driving force behind the Bulldogs. FOX Sports senior college basketball insider and recruiting analyst Evan Daniels has the national perspective this week, bringing attention to the parity in college basketball and how competitive the recruiting field has become for BIG EAST schools.
The episode’s “Who’s Hot” segment features audio clips from some recent big performances around the league and a recap of the league’s weekly honors. “Who’s got next?” takes a look at the upcoming schedule, highlighting the big matchups.
Distributed by Westwood One, This Week In The BIG EAST can be heard across the country. In addition to stations in the BIG EAST institution markets, TWITBE is picked up by Sirius Radio and is currently available for download on
Stitcher. This Week In The BIG EAST is downloadable on
iTunes and
Google Play. Listeners are encouraged to rate and review the show. Archives can be found on the podcasting sites as well as on BIGEAST.com and
Westwoodonesports.com.
To join the conversation and send questions to Rooke (@JRbroadcaster) and McNamara (@KevinMcNamara33), use #TWITBE on Twitter. Fans may submit questions to be featured on the show.