Betting the NCAA Tournament with Chris “The Bear” Fallica

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Every year, when the calendar turns to March, it’s time for just one thing in the world of sports: college basketball….a lot of it. And for Chris “The Bear” Fallica, March is a time when numbers reign supreme. From seeds to statistics, to of course, betting odds…Fallica is a college basketball savant. He joins the show to share his path from research producer to sports betting analyst, where he is frequently seen making picks against the spread on College Gameday, and helps guide us through the NCAA Tournament action based on those numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.1	Seven seconds to go.
0:14.6	Six seconds.
0:15.2	Zhu Zhang in the paint fade away.
0:16.5	No, got his own rebound.
0:18.0	Slithers to the ram and lays it in.
0:20.0	Three seconds to go. We're tied at 90. Here comes Suggs. Long three for the win. Banks at home!
0:26.6	Banks at home! Jalen Suggs, a deep banked three just in Gonzaga, one step closer to history.
0:47.2	March is a truly magical time of year when you think about it, right?
0:51.5	The snow thaws, the clocks change, the days finally get longer,
0:55.3	and it becomes socially acceptable to bet on a parade of colleges that you never attended and may have never even heard of. So today, ahead of the best long
1:01.8	weekend on the sports calendar, we wake college game days Chris Felica, the bear, out of hibernation
1:08.2	as fans return to the NCAA tournament after two years of waiting.
1:13.6	Ed, he helps us figure out how to cash in.
1:17.6	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, March 16th.
1:22.3	This is ESPN Daily.
1:26.7	Chris Felica, why do I get the feeling that even as I sit here talking to you, you're also
1:31.5	toggling between multiple sporting events on like a minority report style console with a
1:36.7	very particular interest on every one of those lines?
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