Friday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball + UFC 326
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Chip Patterson, Mike Barner, Buckets, and Danny Brasco as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, Soccer, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(8:55) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(13:40) Mike's NBA Props and Parlay
(21:50) Chip's College Basketball Bet
(26:13) Danny's UFC 326 Bets
(32:02) Buckets' Rapid Fire Soccer Bets
(35:19) UNC-Duke Early Bets
(39:52) Sia's Golf Bet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, happy Friday, and welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM. |
| 0:13.9 | I see Jen in the chat. |
| 0:15.1 | Ryan Cofter, Fantasy Life, Scott Edwards, Katie Taylor's in here. |
| 0:18.8 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:19.7 | Again, a very happy Friday. |
| 0:21.5 | We're going to have a great show. Let's see if we had a great recap screen. Well, very average, actually. We go five in five. I go two and O. Zach hits his Lyndon Woodpick. Sportsline picks don't pan out a ton, but Chip Patterson, he hits his pick. Prop Stars hits his. five and five again, it's a very average day, but I'll tell you what, this is not a very average day right here on a Friday because it's BPE Friday. |
| 0:49.9 | Let's go. We got Mikey B. |
| 0:54.9 | We got Chip Patterson. |
| 0:56.8 | We got Danny Brasco. |
| 0:58.7 | We've got whatever buckets is doing. |
| 1:01.2 | And ladies and gentlemen, |
| 1:02.1 | if you hadn't had your espresso today, |
| 1:03.9 | if you hadn't had your soda, |
| 1:05.7 | whatever wakes you up in the morning, |
| 1:07.8 | we've got your chip me up. |
| 1:10.1 | Good morning. See you. Good morning. Borders. Good morning. Good your chip me up. Good morning, see you, good morning, |
| 1:11.6 | bucket, good morning, daddy, good morning, |
| 1:13.6 | bucket, good morning, bad, good morning, |
| 1:15.6 | Hurley, Hens, fam, and fam, I come to you a humbled man. |
| 1:20.6 | If you would see me on Friday night, I would have had a sackcloth and ashes on my head, |
| 1:25.6 | as I got a little bit chesty here in this chip me up seven days ago. |
| 1:30.3 | I may have besmirched the great name of the Michigan Wolverines to support my bank of the |
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