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Big Bets On Campus

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With college basketball in full swing, it's time to weave in some amateur hoops betting on the BBOC podcast feed! If you missed the 3 Man Weave episode in the early week, don't fret. They'll be back weekly on Mondays looking at the early slate. In today's show, Action Network experts Michael Calabrese and Josh "Duck" Nunn are back as they welcome newcomer, Christian Odjakjian! Together the crew introduces themselves, rants a bit and discusses how they're looking to tackle watching and betting college hoops this season. Plus, the crew gets into their favorite plays for the mid-week slate on Thursday and Friday. From favorites to underdogs, totals and player props, the guys get into a little bit of everything right here on BBOC.

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0:00.0	The Big Betts on Campus podcast.
0:03.0	Podcast.
0:04.1	All right, here we go.
0:11.2	Spreading the court.
0:12.6	Ten seconds remaining.
0:14.6	They just got to show him to the basket.
0:16.3	Under the basket.
0:17.5	It's the truth for the win.
0:19.0	God!
0:19.4	They did it!
0:21.6	A miracle!
0:27.9	Fadgets! Double water! Hit that one from the parking lot!
0:32.7	Welcome to the Big Betts on campus podcast, presented by Draft Kings. I'm Mike Calabries,
0:36.5	and I have to tell you, I am thrilled about this new Wednesday show. We're talking college hoops. The rest of the way,
0:38.4	all the way through the final four, you're going to get us every single Wednesday. Who's us? You got me, Mike Calabrese. I'm hosting the show. My co-hosts that I'm thrilled to be joined up with again is Duck, our man Josh Nunn. He's going to hit us with all those deep cuts, all those over-unders from low major college basketball.
0:54.1	And we have a brand new addition
0:55.4	to the Action Network family here
0:57.2	and the Big Betts on campus podcast. And that's Christian O'Jackian. Really excited to have him on as well. We're going to run through what brought us together, why we're here. But really at the end of the day, you're listening because you want best bets. You want our hot takes. Also, by the next episode, we're going to have some futures conversations as well, adding to that portfolio as the season rolls on. Before we hop in, though, as I mentioned, we're going to go around the horn, introduce ourselves a bit to the audience. We're going to start with you, Duck, my G5 co-pilot from football season. Now we're attached to the hip again for at least the next two, two and a half months of college hoops. Talk to me about what brought you to college basketball. We know your acumen, everything you do on the gridiron in terms of FCS football, G5 football. But talk us through college hoops. Yeah, college hoops is one of my favorite sports to watch and bet.
1:45.1	You get a long season. There's a lot of different elements and stages to the season. I've
1:48.6	personally been betting on college basketball since 2009. Spent a lot of time posting my plays
1:53.6	into the forums before I started an Action Network a couple of years back. Well, I'm going to take a real
1:59.4	analytical stats- driven-based approach
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