NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Picks and Parlays
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The 2nd Round of the NCAA Tournament is here! Join Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, Chip Patterson, and Eric Cohen as they give out their TOP plays for today and tomorrow's Second Round of the NCAA Tournament!
(0:00) Intro
(6:05) Tom's Michigan-St. Louis Pick
(9:57) EC's MSU-Louisville and High Point-Arkansas Picks
(11:27) Vanderbilt-Nebraska Picks
(17:04) Tournament Futures Picks
(23:47) Sia's TCU-Duke Pick
(30:21) Chip's Illinois-VCU Bet
(36:22) Texas A&M-Houston Picks
(39:54) Texas-Gonzaga Picks
(41:58) MSU-Louisville Bets
(43:20) BONUS Bets and Parlays
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the early edge. |
| 0:12.3 | It's a special Saturday March Madness second round edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I see the chat is already buzzing. |
| 0:18.9 | We've got some of your favorite experts on this show, but let's see how our experts did yesterday. |
| 0:23.7 | Let's do a special Saturday recap screen from Friday, 4 and 6. |
| 0:27.4 | I go one for two. |
| 0:29.1 | One of my picks, the pick that lost actually was from earlier in the week. |
| 0:32.8 | I'll tell you what, look at these basketball losses, and look how many of them lost at the very end. |
| 0:38.0 | Some tough beats for us, four and six. |
| 0:40.3 | Shout out to buckets for going two and oh in soccer. |
| 0:42.5 | We're going to keep this mostly college basketball. |
| 0:44.4 | Maybe if you want to sneak in a golf question, you certainly can for the valspar. |
| 0:48.3 | But we are going to keep this March madness centric, if you will, with Chip Patterson, Eric Cohen, Tom Gasali, Chip, I never like to start negative. I never do. We want to do. Chip me up. Right, right. That's where we all want to be. There we go. Let's get the positivity first. We're doing an Oreo, right? Was it the compliment or the compliment criticism compliment? Yeah, let's do that. Because- |
| 1:18.6 | Positiveity, okay, now you can take us to where you need to go. We had some exes. And so many of them, including Tom's, were just so ridiculous how they panned out down the stretch. |
| 1:29.0 | One of them was yours as well. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, Sox Nation 35 looks like they were right there with me. |
| 1:33.6 | Our friend Josh, who on zero hours of sleep, joined us on Big Pick Energy Friday. |
| 1:40.3 | You know, sent me a message late last night. |
| 1:42.2 | Sounds like he was on it too. |
| 1:43.7 | For UCLA to be nursing, |
| 1:45.9 | what was between a 7 to 10, 11 point lead for almost the entire second half? |
| 1:51.9 | I mean, by the under 16 timeout, UCF made a little bit of a run. |
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