This Week in the BIG EAST - Weekly Overview of NCAA College Basketball's Top Conference

NEW YORK – This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One in in its seventh year. The eighth episode of the season welcomes Providence head coach Ed Cooley, NCAA Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt and Sporting News Columnist and FOX Sports College Basketball bracketologist Mike DeCourcy. ** PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW **  The TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Cooley, who disc...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One in in its seventh year. The seventh episode of the season welcomes Villanova head coach Jay Wright, St. John’s sophomore guard Julian Champagnie and college basketball analyst Steve Lappas.   *** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW ***  The TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Champagnie (6:52) this week as the Red Storm sophomore g...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One in in its seventh year. The sixth episode of the season welcomes St. John’s head coach Mike Anderson , Creighton junior guard Marcus Zegarowski and national college basketball writer and analyst Andy Katz . ** RATE, REVIEW & SUBSCRIBE **   This week the TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Zegarowski, the BIG EAST Preseason Play...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One, returns for 2021, its seventh year. The fifth episode of the season welcomes DePaul head coach Dave Leitao, UConn junior Tyrese Martin and New York Post college basketball beat reporter Zach Braziller.  ** SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW! ** Send Questions via Twitter to #TWITBE! ** This week the TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on H...

The fourth episode of the season welcomes Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing, Seton Hall senior forward Sandro Mamukelashvili and long-time college basketball analyst Bill Raftery.    ** SUBSCRIBE * RATE & REVIEW!! **  This week the #TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Pirate forward Mamukelashvili a veteran member of a Seton Hall squad who won a share of the BIG EAST regular-season title las...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One, returns for 2021, its seventh year. The third episode of the season welcomes @ButlerMBB head coach LaVall Jordan, @MarquetteMBB  sophomore guard D.J. Carton, and Dana O’Neil (@DanaONeilWriter), long time college basketball reporter and author.    ** KEEP US ON THE TOP OF THE CHARTS! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW! ** This week...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One, returns for 2021, its seventh season as the official podcast of BIG EAST basketball. The second episode of the season welcomes Creighton head coach Greg McDermott (@cucoachmac), Xavier sophomore forward Zach Freemantle (@zachfreemantle) and Rob Dauster (@RobDauster), co-host of the Field of 68 podcast.  *** RATE AND REVIEW US! KEE...

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show , distributed by Westwood One, returns for 2021, its seventh season. The first episode of the new year will welcome Connecticut head coach Dan Hurley, Providence junior guard David Duke and BIG EAST Executive Associate Commissioner Stu Jackson. In the first episode of the season, TWITBE’s BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Providence guard David Duke (6:57), a junior...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome Providence head coach Ed Cooley (@CoachCooleyPC), BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman and senior college basketball writer for CBSSports.com Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander). In the penultimate episode of the season, the BIG EAST Spotlight shines down on Cooley (7:15) as he talks...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Creighton head coach Greg McDermott (@cucoachmac), Georgetown Hoyas radio voice Rich Chvotkin (@HoyasWin) and TheAthletic.com College Basketball writer Dana O’Neil (@DanaONeilWriter). The BIG EAST Spotlight shines down on McDermott (8:45). McDermott’s Bluejays have been...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** The #MarchToMSG is heating up as two weeks remain in the regular season. This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing (@CoachEwing33), BIG EAST Executive Associate Commissioner Stu Jackson (@StuJackson32) and FOX Sports College Basketball Bracketologist Mike DeCourcy (@tnmike).  ...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard, former Syracuse guard Lawrence Moten and CBS Sports Network college basketball analyst Steve Lappas.   The BIGE EAST Spotlight shines on Willard, head coach of the league-leading Seton Hall Pirates. Seton Hall has a deep roster that i...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski, College Basketball Insider Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) and Pete Gillen (@Gillenhoops). Fifty games have been played in the 2019-20 @BIGEASTmbb season as February gets started. In the BIG EAST Spotlight is Golden Eagle head coach...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests St. John’s head coach Mike Anderson (@Iron_MikeMA),Creighton junior guard Mitch Ballock and FOX Sports and CBS Sports college basketball analyst Bill Raftery. In the BIG EAST Spotlight, Anderson (6:40) is the new coach on the block among the BIG EAST coaches. Anderson br...

*** Keep TWITBE No. 1! Make sure to rate and review. *** This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Xavier head coach Travis Steele (@CoachSteeleXU), Providence senior forward Alpha Diallo and former BIG EAST Commissioner Mike Tranghese. Steele (8:05) is in the BIG EAST Spotlight ahead of the Xavier-Creighton All-Access game on Sunday. The BIG EAST Focus narrows on Dia...

For the second episode of the This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE), hosts John and Kevin welcome guests Villanova head coach Jay Wright (@VUCoachJWright), Butler senior guard Sean McDermott (@big_sean14) and FOX Sports college basketball analyst Donny Marshall. Wright (8:10) and the Wildcats have won four of the last six BIG EAST tournament titles and two NCAA championships. Villanova is coming off...

Hosts John and Kevin welcome BIG EAST fans to This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) for the dawn of 2020. Earlier this week, the NET ranking had the BIG EAST as the No. 1 conference. Guests on the show inaugural show for 2020 is DePaul head coach Dave Leitao (@CoachDLeitao), Marquette senior standout Markus Howard (@markushoward11) and longtime college basketball writer, columnist and observer Andy...

The hosts for This Week In The BIG EAST are John Rooke, a well-known BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 29 years and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 27 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. This Week in the...

There is only one day left of competition, five games to go until the end of the 2018-19 #BIGEASThoops regular season. No seeds are set for the upcoming BIG EAST Tournament. As many as seven teams can be considered for NCAA Tournament consideration depending on how the next week pans out. Guest interviews with John and Kevin this week start with Creighton head coach Greg McDermott. In the BIG EAST...

There are 13 games left on the #BIGEASThoops schedule and Episode 8 of #TWITBE continues with another lineup of heavy-hitting guests. With less than two weeks  to go, nothing in the bracket has been finalized. The BIG EAST Focus narrows in on BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman. Ackerman (23:01) gives insight on her relationships with and around the sport of basketball, including BIG EAST founder D...

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 th...

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...

Halfway through BIG EAST play, Villanova and Marquette have established themselves as the teams to beat. The Wildcats are unbeaten at 10-0. The Golden Eagles have suffered only two losses. #TWITBE Episode 5 opens with the BIG EAST Spotlight on Butler head coach LaVall Jordan (6:49). In his second year at the helm of his alma mater, Jordan has Butler poised to make another run at an NCAA Tournament...

The #TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight shines on Providence head coach Ed Cooley (4:49) who was recently named coach of the Pan Am Games U.S. National Team, which will consist of all BIG EAST players.  Cooley also breaks down the Friars' standing in the league both in talent and game play. He also gives personal anecdotes of the life of a Division I coach. The Focus narrows on DePaul senior forward M...

Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard is in the #TWITBE BIG EAST Spotlight this week as hosts John Rooke and Kevin McNamara get his take on the difficult task of balancing the development of young players with winning in the BIG EAST. The Pirates have some notable non-conference wins this season over No. 9 Kentucky and on the road at Maryland, while retooling their previously veteran-heavy roster. G...