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

#TWITBE Ep. 6.9 – Guests: Ed Cooley, Val Ackerman, Matt Norlander

March 06, 2020 John Rooke & Kevin McNamara |Big East Basketball: Authors, Sports Writers &
This Week in the BIG EAST - Weekly Overview of NCAA College Basketball's Top Conference
#TWITBE Ep. 6.9 – Guests: Ed Cooley, Val Ackerman, Matt Norlander
Show Notes

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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 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.

 

TWITBE brings sounds of the game through #BIGEASThoops game audio highlights. John (@JRbroadcaster) and Kevin (@KevinMcNamara33) wrap up the latest news in the BIG EAST and previews what’s to come next week.