Friday's BEST BETS: NCAA Tournament Picks and Upsets
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Happy March Madness BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Chip Patterson, Mike McClure, Buckets, and Tom Casale as they give out their plays for the NCAA Tournament, Soccer, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:30) Mike's Akron-Texas Tech Bet
(10:00) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(13:10) UNI- St. Johns Bets
(14:47) Santa Clara-Kentucky Bets
(19:31) Free Sportsline NBA Bets
(23:08) Chip's UCLA-UCF Bet
(26:45) Tom's Hofstra-Alabama Bet
(28:51) BONUS Tournament, Soccer Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. My name is |
| 0:15.5 | Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of Cash, and we've got a great show for you today. Day one of the madness complete. |
| 0:22.8 | Day two, about to happen. |
| 0:24.6 | Let's see how we did on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. |
| 0:29.0 | Five and seven, me and Mike hit that TCU play every which way. |
| 0:33.1 | Tom Casale hits his picks. |
| 0:35.1 | Unfortunately, the sports line picks don't come through, and that's what really teetered this thing the wrong way. |
| 0:40.7 | Shout out to EC going two out of three, |
| 0:42.5 | including VCU Money Line plus 120. |
| 0:46.6 | Wow, what a game that was. |
| 0:48.0 | We've got a lot to talk about, |
| 0:49.2 | including some reaction from yesterday. |
| 0:50.9 | But ladies and gentlemen, first thing is first, |
| 0:53.3 | it's PBE Friday. |
| 1:01.0 | Let's go. |
| 1:02.6 | We got Mike McCloy on the coffee. |
| 1:05.6 | We got buckets drinking hotel water. |
| 1:08.1 | And ladies and gentlemen, we've got your chip me up good morning see you good morning |
| 1:13.9 | buckets good morning mike good morning ben good morning hurley hedge fam oh yeah you know your boy was |
| 1:20.0 | wrapping up on the iron college basketball podcast about 2 30 a m eastern time so we are just running |
| 1:26.0 | on pure black coffee and love of the NCAA tournament |
| 1:30.5 | because see, I heard Cinderella was dead. They were trying to kill Cinderella, put Cinderella |
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