John and Kevin’s guests on this week’s episode include Big East commissioner Val Ackerman (6:30), Providence head coach Ed Cooley (21:45) and CBS Sports and Fox analyst Bill Raftery (31:55).
The hosts for This Week In The BIG EAST are John Rooke, a well-known BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 35 years, and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 33 seasons as a reporter at the Providence Journal and now as a talk show host at WPRO Radio. In each episode, Rooke and McNamara give a comprehensive look at the teams, coaches, players and storied tradition of the top basketball conference in America.