Saturday’s BEST BETS: College Basketball Picks! | The Early Edge

Mackenzie Brooks is joined by Chip Patterson and Mike McClure to dish out Saturday’s best bets!

0:00 Intro
2:00 Mike’s Pick
4:40 Kenz’s Pick
5:23 Chip’s Picks
9:21 Recap

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Good morning everyone happy Saturday welcome back to the early Edge we have a ton of college basketball a lot of Marquee matchups today little bit of MBA but shout out to everyone who showed up here on this Saturday morning respect to all of you let’s take a quick look back

At Friday here going to the Friday recap a great day in golf for the team with CA and Mike here overall great day for the team we’ll try our best to do the same here but before we do that let’s bring in the stars of the show I brought all

The right people here to get a great college basketball Sate oh we got the recap screen again here we go chip how we feeling about the Slate we’re feeling great kids I tell you what this is the beginning of a gut check Saturday a spray the board

Saturday I mean you only have but so many college basketball games left on the schedule this is when we want to dial it in this is we want to have like no caution at this point all gas no breaks let’s go love the energy Mike I feel like internally you’re probably

Feeling the same way are you absolutely uh it’s a nice little tuneup for what we get in the rest of March Madness here too so really the next what month month and a half just phenomenal time in sports in general so fired up for it yes it’s gonna be an awesome

March we’re gonna start here uh with Mike’s pick we’re gonna go into the SEC here um some conference play playing for some things here some people are some people aren’t talk to us Mike yeah we’re going uh Tennessee Kentucky game hopefully you’re a Sportsline member got

This up on the site last night and actually shared it on HQ last night as well uh I played uh Kentucky in this match up here at N9 and a half I get this in as quickly as you can I made the number six and a half here I think the

Market ultimately closes around seven um so yeah get it in as quickly as you can if you still want to play it but when I had it at nine and a half and my six and a half number in the computer those are just drastically different numbers in a

College basketball game we talk about key numbers a lot when we bet football whether it be college or NFL but the six and a half to the nine and a half that I got just a massive range of key numbers in competitive basketball games like this uh you mentioned some of the

Motivation here you know there’s obviously always motivation when you’re playing a rival Tennessee it is senior night for them however they’ve already locked up the number one seed in terms of or they’ve already locked up the conference turn uh the conference in the SEC so there’s not a lot to play for

There however Kentucky has a ton to play for because if they win this game they control their Destiny they get the double Buy in the SEC tournament next week in Nashville I think that is extremely important to them uh but when you look at what Tennessee does they’re

They’re a really great basketball team that plays with Pace Kentucky one of the fastest teams in the country get up and down but they are improving on the defensive end I think they’re hitting the stride at the right time and it’s so difficult to blow them out just because

Of how they play and the style that they play how good they are offensively they are the better free throw shooting team in this matchup as well I’m not saying they’re going to win this one outright but I think we get another very very competitive game here so I took the

Points with Kentucky all right I like that play a lot here I think that is a very very large spread for a team like that and if you would like to put some money on Mike’s play here you can do it at bmgm here new betmgm customers can

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Little more of my bread and butter here we’re g to get a plus money play here Brandon Miller over two and a half made threes today I like this because it’s plus money the sports line model projects him to have 3.7 here he’s been consistently shooting seven plus uh

Threo attempts so that’s what I really like to look at like here the Nets on the road also allowing 40% % three-point shooting and then Miller also himself is averaging somewhere around 2.5 just above 2.5 at home so again I think this is a good get

R spot for him I think Charlotte can cover this game pretty pretty handedly as well but just a great little player prop there all right enough about the NBA I know that’s not what we’re all here for chip bring us home I know we got a lot today take it away yeah yeah

Yeah we got a little three pack for you right now we’re going to start with Marquette laying a short number at Xavier because I think that the market is overreacting to the absence of Tyler kak because we have seen a couple losses but when you really dive into the

Performances this is a golden eagle team under Shaka smart that still has been very competitive I mean they played kraton they played Yukon no shame in those L’s especially without the reigning Big East Player of the Year who do they still have they still got Oso uodo they still got cam Jones Stevie

Mitchell they still got players that are better than most of the players on Xavier’s roster so we will take Marquette and we will lay the two and a half at Xavier okay now we’re going into Kansas and Houston and you remember the first time these two teams played the

Jay Hawks won by 13 in Allen Fieldhouse now they find themselves as an eight and a half Point Underdog I look I understand Houston is a worthy favorite but I think there’s a matchup advantage that still exists in the first game I mean Kansas was lights out offensively like 1.2 points per

Possession uh shooting like 60s something percent from the field they won’t do that in the fertita center that’s for sure but you think about that match up Hunter Dickinson Johnny Fury they’ve got versatile mobile bigs that can stretch out that Houston defense be able to open up lanes and build self one

Of the best in the whole dagum country in terms of being able to scheme up some easy offensive buckets also low possession game big spread quality team give me the dog and finally oh boy I’m I’m GMA eat it right here because I was on CBS Sports HQ with McKenzie Brooks

And I was I was talking Reckless about the kraton Jays and here I am taking kraton at Villanova to cover this short number because this is heavy heavy Vibes and let me tell you about them number one there was a lot of chatter within the industry about the future of Katon

Head coach Greg McDermot Beyond this season if they could not get an extension done McDermot had demands based on the success that he had kraton not exactly you know one of these SEC big 10 schools with loads and loads of money to throw coaches so it was a

Little bit of a sticky situation would we see mcder after all these years leave kraton well what do we get this year looks like the agents and the school and everybody got it ironed out which means we’ve got a head coach with a clear head no longer worried about the future

Speaking of Vibes and speaking of the first meeting it was supposed to be douge mcbuckets day uh Doug McDermot Greg’s son one of the best players in kraton history they retired his jersey back in December December against Villanova and Villanova was disrespectful of the moment took down

Kraton upset loss for the Jays in overtime so kraton we no longer have the drama of the contract extension we also want to get revenge for ruining douy mcbuckets big day give me the Jays the short number in Philly I know I was talking Reckless about them as a

National championship Contender but I have confidence in them winning here on this Saturday I love it chip you really get be fired up for the weekend okay now I’m feeling like alive that’s really waking me up I like it I love Katon you know I love Katon they’re my darling here all

Right that got me so pumped up for March Madness so let’s hear a little bit about selection Sunday who’s in who’s out let the Madness begin the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship selection show on CBS and streaming on Paramount plus before we get to the recap screen I

Got to give a shout out to Dustin in the chat um someone put their entire paycheck on capella assis last night because of me and that was a a big sweat actually it wasn’t even a sweat but we are so close to Turning $20 into $500 we

Just need one more plus money play so if anyone on Twitter wants to give me any suggestions about how we turn this into $500 I am all years should be exciting all right enough of that it is Saturday everyone’s got to get out of here and

Enjoy their weekend let’s take a look at the recap screen I am on Brandon Miller over two and a half three points made at plus 110 Mike is on Kentucky plus the nine and a half against Tennessee chip is on Marquette minus the two and a half

Kansas plus the eight and a half and kraton in the basically a pick them against villain NOA in Philly all right guys that’s all we have time for today we are in and out of here on a Saturday everyone’s got places to be so good luck

With your guys bets today have a great weekend and we’ll see you guys Monday