Wednesday's BEST BETS: College Basketball Bets + Champions League + NHL Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Get bets for Wednesday's games with Sia Nejad, Mike McClure, Martin Green, Buckets, and Jeff Hochman! They answer your questions and hand out their plays for the Champions League, College Basketball, NHL, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:09) Mike's College Basketball and Golf Bets
(10:04) Martin's Champions League Bets
(12:57) Free Sportsline NHL and CBB Picks
(16:00) Jeff's NHL Pick
(18:09) Buckets' Champions League Picks
(19:50) Bonus Champions League Plays
(23:05) St Johns vs. UConn Bets
(25:28) Sia's Golf Bet
(29:10) BONUS Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by BetMGM, |
| 0:13.2 | Make It Legendary. My name is Cianajad, and we've got a great show for you today. I'm already |
| 0:18.2 | seeing the chat buzzing. Some people hitting Bandcaro, |
| 0:21.3 | King of the Court for 800 plus. We love to see that. And we know that was inspired by somebody on |
| 0:26.6 | our recap screen. Prop stars, aka Alex Selznick, hits that Bandcaro prop very easily. A lot of you |
| 0:32.4 | cashed on the KOC thing over at DK as well. Tom Casale hits his play. Prop stars one for two. Jeff Hockman, |
| 0:40.1 | Duke minus 17. They won by 44. Buckets goes two for two, one for two on the sports line picks. |
| 0:47.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, six and three, we will take that every time. And we will take this cast |
| 0:51.6 | every time on a Wednesday. Ladies and gentlemen, we got buckets, we got Martin Green, we've got Mike McClure, and we've got Jeff Hockman. Jeff, I'm going to go to you first real quick. I mean, the Duke thing. This is funny because we were talking about the comment where somebody, for some reason, said you should never lay 16 and and out points. He was talking about Grambling State. |
| 1:12.4 | Here we had Duke laying 17, and they basically tripled that spread. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, I mean, this was a no-swebett right from the start. |
| 1:20.5 | It's always nice to see that. |
| 1:21.9 | And I got a nice comment in the Discord last night. |
| 1:25.3 | G. Barn, he said, your words on Early Edge convinced me to load up on Duke. |
| 1:31.1 | I put three units on that. You just love to see that. You'll love to see that. Buckets, I got to let people |
| 1:38.7 | behind the curtain a little bit here, because about five, six minutes before the show, you emailed this entire group and the lead |
| 1:47.0 | of that email was something along the lines of, damn it, Martin. Is there something going on between |
| 1:51.6 | you and him? So Martin and I are just, we're one, one mind, two bodies, you know, we share the |
| 1:58.5 | same brain waves and brain cells. I think that's a |
| 2:00.8 | compliment to you. Symbiotic. Thank you. That's what I was about to say. He's just we're so linked. He submitted his play for the Juventus Galatasar I match, and it was the exact same play I was going to give. So just know that if it hits, it's technically my winner, but if it misses, that was Martin's choice, guys. That's not me. So I just want to get ahead of that. |
| 2:18.9 | Martin, your response, I feel like it's a little insulting that he says you but if it misses, that was Martin's choice, guys. That's not me. So I just want to get ahead of that. |
| 2:18.9 | Martin, your response, I feel like it's a little insulting that he says you two share the same brain. |
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