Wednesday's BEST BETS: College Basketball + Champions League + Golf
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's WEDNESDAY'S Bets with Sia Nejad, Jeff Hochman, Buckets, Martin Green, and Mike McClure as they hand out their plays for college basketball, Champions League, golf, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:05) Buckets' Champions League Bets
(8:00) Mike's College Basketball Bet
(10:05) Genesis One and Done Picks
(13:05) Free Sportsline CBB Bet
(14:48) Jeff's College Basketball Pick
(18:01) Sia's Genesis Invitational Bet
(20:00) Martin's Champions League Bets
(22:48) BONUS Bets! (CBB, Champions League, Olympics)
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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. Make it legendary. Got a lot of people in the chat. Already Farza, Jeff Stenberg, Rick Funcannon, and ron more stefolkart thanks for being in here |
| 0:22.3 | hit the like button let's see if we like the recap screen how do yesterday five and two buckets |
| 0:29.2 | goes two and oh tom cassali hits virginia tech plus eight and a half pretty easily certainly could |
| 0:33.8 | have won that game outright michigan minus two and a half rolls. And Michigan State from Chip Patterson minus eight and a half. |
| 0:39.4 | That one hits as well. |
| 0:41.2 | We will take five and two every single time. |
| 0:44.5 | And ladies and gentlemen, we'll take this cast on a Wednesday every single time. |
| 0:47.9 | We've got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:49.2 | We clearly have a lot of soccer to talk about with Martin Green and with John Buckets, Imer. |
| 0:56.1 | We got Jeff Hockman. |
| 0:57.5 | We got Mike McClure. |
| 0:59.2 | And we got a situation because I don't know where to start. |
| 1:01.5 | Martin, we don't see you quite as much. |
| 1:03.3 | So I'm going to start with you. |
| 1:04.3 | How you doing? |
| 1:05.2 | And can you set up what seems to be a big soccer day? |
| 1:08.7 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:09.6 | Thanks, see it. |
| 1:10.2 | Always a pleasure to be on the show. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, it's the playoffs for the Champions League. |
| 1:16.3 | The eight teams are going to go through to the round of 16 and the other eight are |
| 1:20.8 | going to be eliminated. |
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