NEW YORK – Guests on the seventh episode of
This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, include DePaul head coach Dave Leitao, CBS Sports Network analyst Pete Gillen and FOX Sports college basketball analyst Evan Daniels.
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. 23, the show will air at 11 a.m. ET on Sirius 108, XM 201 and Online 964, leading into the Marquette at Providence game.
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.
Episode 7 of #TWITBE comes after a Wild Wednesday in the league, as Marquette takes over the top spot in the conference standings. In the Spotlight this week is DePaul Head Coach Dave Leitao. Leitao talks with Kevin and John about the unprecedented parity in the BIG EAST this season. The Blue Demons are in a three-way tie with Providence, DePaul and Creighton at 5-9 with a few games left before the end of the regular season.
The BIG EAST Focus narrows in on CBS Sports Network analyst Pete Gillen. A former coach at Providence and Xavier, Gillen brings his perspective on “crunch time” in college basketball and the ups and downs that come with it.
Sticking with the media point of view, the National Perspective comes from FOX Sports basketball analyst Evan Daniels. Daniels gives his take on the talent across the BIG EAST with an eye on next year as this one winds down. Daniels also covers college recruiting for 247Sports and analyzes “the game within the game” discussing the new talent coming into the BIG EAST next year.
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
iTunes,
Google Play and Stitcher. 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.
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