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Big Bets On Campus

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🗓️ 18 February 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 rant a bit and discuss some storylines in and around the college basketball scene. Was Doug Gottlieb's suspension in the Horizon League warranted? Is there anyone who deserves a punch to the face more than Mick Cronin? How far will Texas Tech drop down the standings with JT Toppin out for the season with an ACL tear? Finally, the crew gets into their favorite plays for the mid-week slate on Thursday and Friday. From favorites and underdogs to 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 her under 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	Fidgets! Double water! Hit that one from the parking lot!
0:33.2	Welcome to the Big Betts on campus podcast. I'm Mike Calabry's joined by my Action Network,
1:12.6	co-host Christian O'Jackian, and our man Duck, aka Josh Nunn. You can call him Duck, you can call him Josh. Just make sure that you're hitting them up over on Twitter with those handshake emojis because he's been cashing a lot of picks here throughout the college hoop season. Guys, how are we feeling at this point? Because I think college basketball is starting to peak, and I mean that in the absolute best way possible. It feels like every single week we're having like a game of the year vibe. You're getting wild games like UMass, Coastal Carolina, where people are making shots. You're getting heavyweight fights. I feel like a lot of the major power conferences have been backloaded in terms of some of these setups and some of these critical matchups. It's been phenomenal. It's a sport where Iowa State can lose to TCU,
1:19.2	turn around, beat Kansas, then get into 15-round bout with Hust. Like, just all of it is kind of overflowing with how great the product is on the floor. And then off the floor, we're going to get
1:23.3	into some coaches being some real pricks. And some people arguing with the media, arguing with
1:28.4	their own team, throwing players out of their own game. Like college basketball is getting
1:33.2	testy and I think the pressure is bringing out the best in this sport. And we haven't even made it to
1:38.3	March yet. So I'll go to you first, Christian. Is there anything in particular right now high
1:42.2	level that you are focused in on player, coach, theme, conference title race, anything like that at this point in the season?
1:49.0	Remember, this is a safe space.
1:50.8	You know what pisses me off most of all?
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