This Week In The BIG EAST – Ep. 4.6
#TWITBE Episode 6, features Kevin Willard, Steve Lappas, Jon Rothstein
NEW YORK – The sixth episode of the fourth season of
This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, dropped Thursday night. This week’s featured guests included: Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard, former Villanova head coach and current CBS Sports Network analyst Steve Lappas and CBSSN’s college basketball insider Jon Rothstein.
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 longtime 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 Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard. Willard and the Pirates are hoping for a second-half surge during BIG EAST play as they sit in the middle of the standings at 6-5 but nationally are receiving votes in both polls. The last shall be first – St. John’s defeated the No. 4 and No. 1 teams in the country in the last five days with Duke and Villanova. In this week’s BIG EAST Focus is former Wildcat head coach and current CBS Sports Network analyst Steve Lappas. Lappas was on the call as St. John’s upset Villanova in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The national perspective comes from Jon Rothstein. Rothstein gives his impressions of the parity of play in the BIG EAST as the perceived “underdogs” in the conference continue to improve and act as a threat at the top.
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.
This Week In The BIG EAST is currently the top-ranked show for “NCAA Basketball” on Apple iTunes.
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.