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Big Bets On Campus

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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BBOC is back with more college hoops! In today's show, Action Network experts Michael Calabrese, Josh "Duck" Nunn and Christian Odjakjian team up again to rant a bit and discuss some storylines in and around the college basketball scene. Plus, the crew gets into their favorite plays for the mid-week slate on Thursday and Friday and a few looks to Saturday too. 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	Fetians! Double water! Hit that one from the parking lot!
0:33.1	Welcome to the Big Betts on campus podcast presented by Draft Kings. I'm Mike Calabries. I'm joined by Josh Nunn, aka Duck, and Christian O. Jack Gian again for some midweek college hoops action. We're going to be with you every single Wednesday all the way through the end of the season. So you're going to always come to us for kind of a broader look at college hoops. We're going to give you look-heads for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday games. But we also want to get you in a position where you can add to your futures portfolio. that's conference titles, Final Four, national title, making the tournament odds, all kinds of interesting markets that open throughout the regular season and start to pick up a little bit more volume in terms of sports betters. At this time of year, as college football winds down, and there's more interest on the college hardwood. All right. Let's just jump right into it here, Duck. I want to hear something that's been interesting you, a trend, a conference that overarchingly is either piquing your interest from a gambling perspective or just the brand of basketball that's being played. Well, I think the Mac is such a fun league this year and competitive at the top. And is the Mac a two big league? That's the question that I
1:27.7	would have. Miami of Ohio has been a big surprise this season, 16 and O. Travis Steele, a true program build. We haven't seen a lot of that with the one and done era and teams just reloading. But when you get a real program rebuild, this is a really cool story to see. We saw it back in 24 where it kind of started with the Red Hawks.
1:45.5	Finish 15 and 17, but much more competitive in league play in This is a really cool story to see. We saw it back in 2024 where it kind of started with the Red Hawks,
1:45.5	finished 15 and 17, but much more competitive in league play.
1:48.3	And then last year they really turned the corner, finished 25 and 9,
1:52.3	and so, so close to making the NCAA tournament.
1:55.0	If you look back to that Mack Championship game and how that ended.
1:58.5	And now these guys are rolling.
1:59.9	I look at Miami of Ohio.
2:01.1	They're incredibly fun to watch and they're efficient offensively.
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