Tuesday's BEST BETS: College Basketball + Premier League + NHL
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's Talkback Tuesday! Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Jeff Hochman, and Tom Casale as they answer YOUR questions and give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, NHL, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:37) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(9:18) Tom's College Basketball Bet
(17:22) Buckets' Extra Soccer Bets
(19:32) Bonus CBB Bets
(20:53) Jeff's College Basketball Bet and NHL Pick
(25:10) BONUS Bets (EPL, CBB, NHL)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by Bed-MGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.0 | We've got a great show for you today on Talk Back Tuesday. |
| 0:19.2 | Let's take a look at the recap screen, though, before we bring in the stars of the show. Mikey B, just on fire. I don't know. Maybe the chat can tell me if he hit the parlay for the third time in a row. But we did hit the parlay he gave out as an official pick, of course. Oh, I guess that would have been the play. He didn't give out an extra parlay. Anyway, two for two for |
| 0:37.6 | B. Larry Hartstein goes one for two, laying that 19 and a half. How about that? That one comes in. |
| 0:43.5 | Sportsline pick doesn't come in. Mike McClure's pick doesn't come in. We go three and three. |
| 0:47.6 | Not a great day, not a terrible day. Let's see if we can improve upon 500, though, with John |
| 0:53.4 | Imer, with Tom Casali, and with Jeff |
| 0:56.7 | Hoffman. Wow, look at buckets. What's going on? It's a new look for you today. |
| 1:02.8 | You're talking about the Copa del Rey this afternoon, or what do you mean? |
| 1:07.2 | Tom Casale, how you doing today? We've got championship season underway. You've got to be as excited as can be at this point. We've got all the small conference tournament starting up. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, I'm excited. You know, I've been betting college basketball since early November, you know, every night. And I think it's the same in any season, whether it's Major League Baseball, college basketball, you get to a point where you're, you know, you're like, all right, let's get to the postseason, right? That's kind of where I am right now, because the postseason gives you a different dynamic to bet, like these conference tournaments are in neutral courts. And so I'm looking forward to it. I think one of the things I'll say, though, if you're, and I'm going to be, I'm going to be a stickler on this. I know people don't want to hear it. If you enjoy upsets, if you like value and taking a long shot, this ain't the time for you. I'm just telling you, you look at teams like Arizona and Michigan and Duke, |
| 2:02.0 | they don't lose. You tell me all the value that they, you know, I let them take this team on the |
| 2:05.9 | at home because they got value against Duke, but they lost by 30. So I just don't know if we're going |
| 2:12.0 | to see a bunch of upsets in the conference tournament. So that would be just weary taking like, you know, |
| 2:18.3 | a Texas to win the SEC. You know, it's interesting. And we'll get to a lot of college basketball later on in the |
| 2:24.4 | show. But we've got some people saying Jeff Hockman that Buckets looks homeless. And then others saying |
| 2:30.2 | buckets looks very studious and mature. Jeff, can you weigh in on this? Because Buckets didn't |
| 2:35.4 | want to acknowledge the new look. I'm going with the latter. I think Buckets looks studious, |
| 2:40.1 | professional, and he's very, he's super sharp. So this look just makes him look even more super |
| 2:47.7 | sharp. And by the way, see you. I know there's two tournaments in golf this |
| 2:53.0 | week. Yeah. Is that correct? Well, there's actually four tournaments. I mean, we've got the |
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