Monday's BEST BETS: IU-Miami National Championship Picks + NBA
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by SportsLine experts Chip Patterson, Eric Cohen, Mike McClure, Tom Casale, and Mike Barner as they give out their BEST BETS for the National Championship Game between Indiana and Miami, NBA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:00) Is IU the Best Sports Story?
(7:02) Mike's IU-Miami Bet
(9:10) National Championship Spread Picks
(11:10) Chips IU-Miami Bets & Props
(18:50) Sia's Golf Bet
(21:54) EC's Natty Parlay & NFL Parlay
(24:33) Carson Beck Predictions/Impact
(30:39) Mikey B's NBA Props
(34:07) Tom's IU-Miami Player Prop
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.5 | My name is Cia Najat, and we are brought to you by BetMGM. |
| 0:15.1 | Make it legendary. |
| 0:16.9 | I'll tell you what, before we bring in the stars of the show, and we do have some serious star power today. |
| 0:21.8 | We do not have a legendary recap screen. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, I guess it's legendary in some ways. We go three and eleven. I lose two out of three. I lose my golf bets. I do hit my NFL prop. I've hit 10 in a row on the NFL player prop show. So there's that. but Will Brinson, Danny Brasco, Larry Hartstein, they don't hit theirs. |
| 0:38.6 | Buckets goes one for two, sports line picks go one for three again a pretty bad recap screen but we got to bounce back we got |
| 0:45.2 | amags picks in the chat baseball right around the corner we'll have amags and matt sniper back |
| 0:50.7 | before you know it but let's talk about the here now because ladies and gentlemen it's national championship monday and we're bringing chip patterson we're bringing mikey b eric cohen |
| 1:00.8 | mike mcclore tom cassali chip usually when you're on the show i start with you so i'm just going to go |
| 1:06.8 | ahead and do that now i know we don't have a chip me up but you've got to be excited about tonight |
| 1:10.5 | yeah i bittersweet honestly see know, like you pour so much into this. And the way that the current playoff format is set up, it kind of drags in. I mean, it almost feels as though you're going back and you haven't even written new notes yet, right? I mean, you're just going back and you're trying to find more angles to it. |
| 1:32.8 | But ultimately, the thing that I am so excited about in this very moment is that no matter who wins tonight, |
| 1:38.5 | we have an unbelievable story. Obviously, Indiana winning is one of the greatest stories in sports, |
| 1:43.1 | American sports, global sports, just sort of where they were to where they've become. |
| 1:45.9 | And then for those of you, especially of a certain generation, |
| 1:48.9 | Miami getting back to the top of the mountain is awesome. |
| 1:52.1 | I mean, and this would be the third program peak. |
| 1:56.6 | They had a decade of dominance, right, from 1983 to 1991. |
| 2:02.4 | Then they had to go in the NCAA basement and emerge once again with one of the most talented teams we've ever seen. And it has not been since that awful, awful call against Ohio State |
| 2:08.8 | that we've even seen them on this stage. So no matter who wins tonight, the things that I'm |
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