Tonight’s BEST BETS: March Madness 1st Round! | The Early Edge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Allan Bell is joined by Eric Cohen, Larry Hartstein and Jason Spector to bring you MORE best bets for Friday!
ABOUT THE SHOW: Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more!
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| 0:00.0 | I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie. |
| 0:04.0 | Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:10.0 | Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel. |
| 0:15.0 | Cool, that was close. |
| 0:16.0 | You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver. |
| 0:19.0 | Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Paddy Power. Valid on selected leagues and |
| 0:24.3 | markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Cs and |
| 0:27.8 | exclusions apply. 18 plus scummelware. Dot-org. |
| 0:36.3 | What's up everybody. Welcome to the Early Edge in 5. I'm your host, Alibald. We've got a fantastic show lineup for today, bringing down everything this afternoon and tonight for the NCAA tournament. So, tell you what, we have zero time to waste. Let's bring you the stars of the show. |
| 0:50.1 | All right. Let's get into the picks here. I'll tell you what, my show. Normally you're in the last spot, all right, the Meister's spot. But I want you going first because I feel like you've got some good vibes coming. So bring it, brother. What you got today? |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, well, the first play, and I see Mikey's in the chat, I would never challenge Mikey on a total. |
| 1:06.4 | This guy's hit seven straight totals. |
| 1:08.2 | You can see him on sports line, and that's just a small portion of what he's done with totals this season. |
| 1:14.3 | It's like something like that. This guy's hit seven straight totals. You can see him on sports line. And that's just a small portion of what he's done with totals this season. |
| 1:14.3 | It's something like 210 and 150, something crazy like that. |
| 1:18.5 | But I will oppose him on the side here tonight. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm going to take four and a half with Kent State against Indiana. |
| 1:24.0 | I just think you have not seen a defense like this from a mid-major in a long time, |
| 1:29.2 | top 20 nationally. They will lock it down. And, you know, they're outmanned a little bit in the front court, but guard play, senior guards, they have the advantage in the back court. They come in |
| 1:34.5 | on an incredible run. There was an incident that happened before the MAC title game last season and |
| 1:39.5 | guys got suspended. They couldn't play. And I don't even know the details, but apparently it was |
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