NEW YORK – This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, returns for episode nine with Providence head coach Ed Cooley (@CoachCooleyPC), BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman and senior college basketball writer for CBSSports.com Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander).
The 2020 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 preceding the first BIG EAST contest of the day. This week, TWITBE will be carried on Sirius 133, XM 201 and online 964, leading into Marquette at St. John’s game at Noon ET.
New this season, the show will also be available on Spotify.
The returning hosts for
This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) are John Rooke, a longtime BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 32 years, and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 30 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.
In the penultimate episode of the season, the BIG EAST Spotlight shines down on Cooley (7:15) as he talks about how his Providence Friars turned it around after a tough start in non-conference play. In February, Cooley’s Friars won five consecutive games over ranked teams. BIG EAST Commissioner Ackerman (23:48) is in the lens of the BIG EAST Focus as she gives historical anecdotes on the last 40 years of the BIG EAST and her impressions on the regular season that wraps up on Saturday. The national perspective comes from Norlander (35:10) as he gives his hot takes on potential NCAA Tournament seeding heading into the BIG EAST Championship next week. Spoiler alert, he has Villanova winning the tournament for a fourth straight year and seven teams in the Big Dance.
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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