#TWITBE Ep. 11.5 - Guests Ed Cooley, Ken Pomeroy, Bill Raftery

This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, continued its 11th season with guests Georgetown head coach Ed Cooley, NCAA Basketball Analytics Expert Ken Pomeroy and FOX Sports and CBS Sports analyst Bill Raftery. The returning hosts for This Week In The BIG EAST (#TWITBE) are John Rooke, a longtime BIG EAST play-by-play voice, and Kevin McNamara, BIG EAST radio host, columnist and author. 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. The fifth episode of TWITBE takes a look at the top of the BIG EAST standings, as St. John's (20-3, 11-1 BIG EAST) enters Friday's top-20 match up at UConn (16-6, 8-3) riding a nine-game winning streak. Sitting just a game back in the standings and riding an eight-game winning streak, Creighton (17-6, 10-2) hosts Marquette (18-5, 9-3) on Saturday. The BIG EAST Spotlight is on Georgetown head coach Ed Cooley, to discuss the state of the Hoyas and how the rebuild process has been going. Continuing to improve each week, the Hoyas enter the weekend with more wins in 2024-25 in comparison to the past three seasons combined. In addition, Georgetown remains in the hunt for a top five seed and first round bye in the BIG EAST Tournament. The BIG EAST Focus shines on analytics expert Ken Pomeroy, the founder of kenpom.com. Pomeroy's metrics and numerical rankings of every Division I NCAA basketball team are considered invaluable when forecasting the field for March Madness. He takes the time to discuss how the conference stacks up nationally heading into the final stretch. Rooke and McNamara are then joined by FOX Sports and CBS Sports Analyst, Bill Raftery. Raftery discusses the BIG EAST from top to bottom and gives his thoughts who could be a dark horse candidate to make a March run. In addition, Raftery gives his thoughts on the Red Storm who are off to its best start in 40 years. The episode’s “Who’s Hot” segment features the return of “Blast from the Past”, turning the clock back to Feb. 10, 2018. On this day, St. John’s standout guard, Shamorie Ponds went for 44 points against Marquette. The highest scoring BIG EAST game for a St. John’s player since Marcus Hatten in 2003. To join the conversation and send questions to Rooke (@JRbroadcaster) and McNamara (@KevinMcNamara33), use on Twitter. Fans may submit questions to be featured on the show. Please

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#TWITBE Ep. 11.5 - Guests Ed Cooley, Ken Pomeroy, Bill Raftery is an episode from This Week in the Big East - Weekly Overview of NCAA College Basketball's Top Conference by John Rooke & Kevin McNamara .

This episode is 44:53 long.

This episode was published on Feb 7, 2025.

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