NEW YORK – Guests on the sixth episode of
This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, include St. John’s head coach Chris Mullin, Butler guard Kamar Baldwin and Westwood One college basketball analyst and former Providence Friar Austin Croshere.
The 2018-19 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. The show airs on three
Sirius XM stations on Saturdays.
This Saturday, Feb. 16, the show will air at 1 p.m. ET on Sirius 113, XM 201 and Online 964, leading into the Xavier at Providence game at 2 p.m.
The Musketeers-Friars game will also be carried on Westwood One Sports, as will the Villanova at St. John’s game at 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The returning hosts for
This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) are John Rooke, a longtime BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 31 years, and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 29 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.
The BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament’s Broadway opening night is just four weeks away and like the Phantom of the Opera, the Lion King or even Cats, it looks like Villanova is settling in for another long run in the spotlight. Threatening to steal a scene or two along the way would be Marquette, as the second place team in the standings, the “understudies” beat the Wildcats last weekend, giving Villanova its first loss this season after 10 wins to open league play.
Tied for third place in the standings sits St. John’s and in the #TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight this week is head coach Chris Mullin (8:58). Mullin sees the Red Storm moving in the direction he wants, but to be where they expect to be come mid-March, St. John’s needs to rely on some grit to get there.
The BIG EAST Focus narrows on Butler guard Kamar Baldwin (23:50). Long gone are the days where Butler can sneak up on the basketball big boys across the country and pull off a surprise. Baldwin and Butler continually work on changing their mindset from being hunters to the hunted. The junior discusses Butler’s NCAA Tournament push.
Former Providence forward and current Westwood One NCAA Basketball radio analyst Austin Croshere (32:54) brings the National Perspective. A star at Providence in the late 1990’s, Croshere made a great career for himself in the pros and now works for Westwood One, where he will call this weekend’s Providence-Xavier game for the mass media company. Croshere gives his preview on the game as well as what is to come over the next few weeks.
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
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