Thursday's BEST BETS: NCAA Tournament Picks + Parlays
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
NCAA Tournament Day is finally here! Join Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, Chip Patterson, and Eric Cohen as they give out their TOP plays for today's First Round of the NCAA Tournament!
(0:00) Intro
(6:15) Mike's TCU-Ohio State Bet
(8:35) Sia's TCU-Ohio State Bet
(12:07) Tom's Hawaii-Arkansas Bet
(13:35) Chip's Hawaii-Arkansas Bet
(17:15) Ben's Wisconsin-High Point Bet
(20:15) Larry's NDSU-MSU Bet
(222:18) Does a 14,15, or 16 Seed Win Today?
(25:38) EC's Tournament Bets and Parlay
(28:40) BONUS Tournament Bets!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, happy Thursday, otherwise known as Merry Christmas, because the madness is about to start. |
| 0:15.6 | I see the chat. It is absolutely buzzing. Hello, Rick Funcannon, Big Rody, Mike McClure's in the chat. |
| 0:21.4 | Steve Fulcertz, see if Mike McClure's on the show. But before we do that, let's take a look at the recap screen. O'N3, not a very good day. Buckets loses. Zach Simney loses his pick, and our sports line pick loses as well. Only three picks. Don't forget, my pick is pending. I've got that Maddie Schmidt matchup. |
| 0:38.3 | We were up three full shots. |
| 0:40.4 | Now it looksup we were up |
| 0:38.9 | three full shots now it looks like we're up one shot and we might pull even with nine holes to go |
| 0:44.6 | so we'll see how that one turns out but ladies and gentlemen this day is all about college basketball |
| 0:49.9 | it's all about march madness let's bring in the stars of the show. Check out this cast, everyone. |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, we got Chip Batterson, we got Mike McClure, Larry Arsteen, Eric Cohen, Tom Casale. |
| 1:01.3 | This is a very much a college basketball intensive group here. |
| 1:05.2 | But I'll tell you what, if you have questions regarding any sport, let us know in the chat. |
| 1:10.0 | Larry, I'm going to go to you first. I do want to |
| 1:12.1 | just point out that Miami of Ohio, that they came in as a dog, a really good win from them last |
| 1:18.8 | night. Your response to that or anything else? Yeah, the story of the night, Miami of Ohio, |
| 1:22.7 | it's kind of fun to look up at the TV, at True TV and see our boss, Eric Kay, celebrating on national TV. |
| 1:30.7 | Had a great time up there. |
| 1:32.6 | But, you know, I just, you know, BJ Edwards doesn't play. |
| 1:35.8 | Should S.I don't want to take anything away from Miami, but would SMU have even been in the tournament if they knew that B.J. Edwards was not going to play. |
| 1:43.9 | They were terrible down the stretch without them. They BJ Edwards was not going to play. |
| 1:46.2 | They were terrible down the stretch without him. |
| 1:47.9 | They don't play any defense. |
| 1:53.3 | So credit to Miami, but it was kind of an interesting scenario where they say he's going to be available, looks like he's going to give it a go, at least try, and then he's not |
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