Tuesday's BEST BETS: College Basketball + Champions League
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
TUESDAY'S BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Jeff Hochman, Tom Casale, EC, and Buckets as they hand out their plays for college basketball, Champions League, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:23) Tom's College Basketball Bet
(6:24) Buckets' Champions League Picks
(12:42) Free Sportsline CBB Pick
(15:00) Jeff's MLB Futures and CBB Pick
(22:00) Sia's Genesis Golf Pick
(23:56) EC's College Basketball Picks
(25:27) Bonus Bets! (CBB, Champions League)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.3 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, a great show for you today. |
| 0:17.2 | We've got a lot of college basketball. |
| 0:19.5 | We've got some soccer, of course, some |
| 0:21.1 | PGA, a lot to go over with Pogo Picks. James Water, Rainwater. Aaron Bailey is in here. Michael Johnson, Jason Herod. Thanks for being in here. Hit the like button. Let's see if we like the recap screen. I believe we go one and two. Oh, my gosh. I mean, this probably should have been two and one. We got to learn how to box out Houston. |
| 0:38.2 | They'd lose by the most narrow of margins. |
| 0:40.8 | We lose by the hook, essentially there. And then Larry's pick does not come through poor start for Texas A&M Corpus Christi. They did fight back. But we go one and two thanks to Mike hitting his pick. Let's bring in the stars of the show. Let's get this thing started. Again, continuing to say hi to Lou Brusco in here. We got buckets. We got EC. We got Tom Casale. We got Jeff Hockman. I don't know where to start. EC. We have a show tonight. Do we not? 7 o'clock? You host that show, right? That I do, the early wed see you, and I have have the winner. You know, and you just feel like you know this tournament and that you're owed one, I'm owed one. And the guy that's going to win for us this week, and I'm sure Hockman has an opinion, Patrick Cantlay is going to win. Oh, my God. Are you serious? I'm serious. And I'll tell you what. I read Sobel's article. He's on it, too, see ya. Get on board. I'm sorry. You're wrong. I like Patrick Cantley just as much as the next guy, which means not very much at all. But I think this is, I think Roy McElroy is going to win this tournament personally. I've got a couple of other players to discuss on the early wedge. I'm going to discuss one of them later on in the show. Buck, I'm doing well, see it. We've got the Champions |
| 1:48.9 | League knockout stages part in your taking place this afternoon. But quick question for you, |
| 1:53.3 | have you seen these? Have you seen these little CBS custom kits? What? Aren't those awesome? |
| 2:00.0 | How did you get those? The best employees on the early |
| 2:03.5 | edge team all got a pair sent to them. So I'm shocked that you didn't get one, I guess, but just |
| 2:07.2 | want to do a show them. I'm extremely jealous. Jeff Hockman, do you have a pair of those shoes? |
| 2:12.4 | I do not, but I do have a hat that I like to wear every day. And by the way, I saw yesterday's show, |
| 2:18.4 | and it would have been really weird if Sia came in with a hat, right? There's no hats allowed in court. |
| 2:25.0 | There are no hats allowed in court. That's absolutely true. Jeff, I do want to tell everybody, |
| 2:30.1 | you've got, because we talked a lot about speaking to yesterday's show, everybody, I encourage you to go back around like the 23, 24 minute mark. |
| 2:36.9 | We really got it launched into a big baseball discussion about the Dodgers and plenty of other teams. |
| 2:43.0 | Jeff, correct me if I'm wrong, but you have a college basketball play today, but you also have a couple of MLB futures relating to an AL Central team. |
| 2:55.6 | Yeah, I got two. I like the total on a team, |
| 3:01.0 | and I like a team to win the division. I got some good analysis on that. So very excited. Yeah, |
| 3:06.6 | I saw Amags in here yesterday. So it's time for baseball. We got to, you know, once the Super Bowl's over, you got to switch over to baseball, start |
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