Today's picks: Why Colorado will cover vs. St. Bonaventure, plus more college basketball and soccer best bets for Tuesday, March 15
SportsLine's proven experts share their favorite bets on the Early Edge podcast for Tuesday, March 15
Jonathan Coachman is joined by top sports betting experts Chip Patterson, Jon (Buckets) Eimer, Martin Green and Zack Cimini on the Early Edge podcast, powered by SportsLine. Get highlighted plays for college basketball and soccer for Tuesday, March 15, and you can stream the show live every morning on the SportsLine YouTube page.
Coach starts things off with the SportsLine play of the day: Vanderbilt (-3.5) to cover against Belmont in the first round of the NIT (7 p.m. ET). "[The Commodores] have really been coming on as of late," he says. "They've covered in seven of their last eight games."
Green has two soccer plays. The first is Both Teams To Score in the Manchester United-Atletico Madrid match (4 p.m. ET). "Atletico Madrid have only kept one clean sheet on the road in 14 LaLiga games this season," he says. "They could struggle against the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and all the stellar Man U forwards. Man U have conceded six goals in their last four games."
He also likes a same-game parlay: Ajax to win over Benfica and Both Teams To Score (4 p.m. ET). "They should be able to get the job done against an aging Benfica defense," he says. "However Benfica is strong in the attack too."
Buckets also has two soccer plays: The first is Ajax forward Sebastien Haller to score against Benfica (-135). "He is currently the second top scorer in all of Champions League, with 11 goals over seven Champions League games," Eimer says. "He has scored in his last three games, including a goal in this last match against Benfica."Â
He also likes Toulouse to score Over 1.5 goals (-130) against Amiens (2 p.m. ET). "They have scored more than two in five of their last six matches and should have no problem doing that again today," he says.
Cimini has one college basketball play: Texas Southern (-3) to cover against Texas A&M Corpus Christi in a First Four game (6:40 p.m. ET). Cimini is buying the half-point to drop the spread. "Texas Southern had one of the more challenging nonconference schedules this year," he says.
Patterson closes out the show with two college basketball plays. The first is Wyoming (+4) to cover against Indiana in a First Four game (9:10 p.m. ET). "[Wyoming's] Graham Ike down low is an absolute monster," he says. "I think he can help neutralize Trayce Jackson-Davis."
His final play is Colorado (-4) to cover against St. Bonaventure in a first round game of the NIT (11 p.m. ET). "Colorado has been a good team. Jabari Walker has been one of my favorite forwards in the Pac-12."
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