Best bets for 2021 NCAA Tournament: Our five favorite first-round picks against the spread (College Basketball 03/17)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode focus on Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish's picks for their top five bets for the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. Are they experts? Of course not. Will this be the most entertaining (and still informative) picks podcast episode you'll find? Of course. We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode. To see the guys' brackets at CBSSports.com, head here: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/expert-picks-and-anaylsis/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pershings, Wednesday, March 16, 2021. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports I-On College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discussed |
| 0:19.5 | Kamil fighting Doto Birds and Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me and today is all |
| 0:24.2 | about picks and picks and picks. I have identified by four favorite first round picks. Deadleg has |
| 0:30.7 | done the same, so this is basically an entire podcast dedicated to being something close to |
| 0:38.8 | an extended version of the final four and one. Should this count in our official records, |
| 0:44.1 | Deadleg? Oh, it's counting the records and here's where we're at right now. I'm 37 and 32. |
| 0:49.8 | You're 31 and 38. This is going to count to the season long tally and it's going to give you a shot |
| 0:55.9 | here. I mean, I don't know if we're doing this for sweet 16 or not. They want to pick the episode, |
| 1:01.0 | we're giving them a picks episode, our favorite ones against the spread here. I'm going to need someone |
| 1:06.0 | to go back and tell me what the hell we put on the line at the start of the season. Do you remember? |
| 1:10.0 | Like, what I do remember is this. Well, actually, I got a couple, I got a couple beefs actually. |
| 1:14.3 | I thought about this yesterday. I forgot to bring it up. Dude, where's my pizza? Have you got |
| 1:19.2 | I forgot? You haven't heard of this. I wanted this for the I'm going to experience the first round |
| 1:23.3 | of the NCAA tournament at my house. I wanted the pizza and it hasn't come yet. I feel bad. I |
| 1:29.2 | when you texted me, exactly what pizzas you wanted, I was I think it was the night before I was |
| 1:36.4 | leaving town or or one of the we were literally in the car going to dinner. Me and my wife and my |
| 1:46.0 | youngest son. And I was like, okay, I'll just do this when I get home. And that's the last time |
| 1:51.2 | I thought about it until just now. That's that's that's that's on me. That was the biggest load of |
| 1:56.6 | crap I've ever heard. Here's my promise to you because you know me, I pay my pets. I will soon as we |
| 2:03.1 | get done with this, the very next thing I'm going to do is put your order in and I'll put it on |
| 2:10.0 | rush delivery. So maybe just maybe it gets there a little little more quick. Fair enough. Now last |
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