2025 March Madness Bracket Fill-Out | NCAA Tournament Picks & Predictions

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We're making picks for EVERY GAME of the 2025 NCAA Tournament March Madness bracket! Join Sia Nejad, Chip Patterson, Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, Tom Casale, and Zack Cimini as they go through each reason and fill out the bracket LIVE! (0:00) Intro + Bracket Thoughts (8:17) South Region Picks (41:09) West Region Picks (1:05:29) East Region Picks (1:20:34) Midwest Region Picks (1:23:44) Final Four Picks #sportsbettingcommunity #Gambling #Betting #MarchMadness #CollegeBasketball #2025NCAATournament 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider ▶︎ CFB Picks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2OMV9N3pRUJGnxdCKAbhlraxwPCrm0g6 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Looking for a specific game we haven’t covered? Head to https://www.sportsline.com, where you can always find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.5	What's up everybody? Welcome to the Early Edge. My name is Cia Najat. I'm the counselor of cash, and I've got a really good show to bring to all of you who are already in the chat. We're going to do a March Madness bracket fill in right here, right now, with some of the best minds at Sportsline, certainly some of the best
1:28.1	college basketball minds at Sportsline. If you think I was leaving anybody out, nope, Chip
1:33.8	Patterson, Larry Hardstein, Zach Simony, Tom Casale, Mike McClore, McKenzie Brooks would have been
1:38.5	here, by the way, but she is traveling. She is on assignment so many different places, but we've got
1:43.7	the six of us.
1:45.0	I am going to be really truly hosting this one, guys, because I want to hear your picks.
1:50.4	We're going to go through the bracket.
1:51.3	We've got five here, right?
1:52.4	So if it's three to two on a pick, we're going to advance that team, four to one, five to nothing, whatever the case may be.
1:57.9	The chat is going to be filling out the Midwest bracket.
2:00.7	You've already done a little bit.
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