This Week In The BIG EAST Radio Show, distributed by Westwood One, continued its 11th season with guests Marquette head coach Shaka Smart, Villanova senior forward Eric Dixon and college basketball analyst Donny Marshall.

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 fourth episode of TWITBE takes a look at the top of the BIG EAST standings, as St. John's is in position at the halfway point to make a run at just their second ever BIG EAST regular season title. The Red Storm are tied with Marquette at the top of the standings at 9-1 and the pair of top-15 teams are set to face off on Feb. 4 at Madison Square Garden.

The BIG EAST Spotlight is on Marquette head coach Shaka Smart, to discuss the state of the Golden Eagles and how the team is prepping ahead of its upcoming schedule that includes a home game against No. 25 UConn on Saturday, before a pair of road games against No. 15 St. John's and Creighton.

The BIG EAST Focus shines on the nation's leading scorer Eric Dixon, who maintains a 3.0 points per game advantage on second-place. The upperclassmen is averaging 24.6 points per game to lead the Wildcats. Dazzling both in the post and from beyond the arc, Dixon takes the time to talk about how the Wildcats look to finish the second half of the season strong and make a push toward a first round bye in the BIG EAST Tournament.

Rooke and McNamara are then joined by UConn legend and FOX Sports and Peacock Analyst, Donny Marshall. Two teams in St. John’s and Marquette are trying to separate themselves from the pack just ahead of Creighton and the two-time defending National Champion UConn. Marshall joins the show to discuss the conference standings and where BIG EAST teams stand nationally.

The episode’s “Who’s Hot” segment features the return of “Blast from the Past”, turning the clock back 37 years to Jan. 25, 1988. Pittsburgh's Jerome Lane dunked the ball with such ferocity in a game against Providence at the old Fitzgerald Field House that the backboard disintegrated into thousands of pieces. Mike Gorman and Bill Raftery were on the television call of the game with Raftery delighting in the dunk exclaiming, “SEND IT IN JEROME!”.

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This will air Saturday, Feb. 1 at Noon ET on Sirius 138 XM 201 Online 963 leading into Providence at St. John's.