Today's picks: Why Stanford will cover vs. UConn in Women's Final Four, plus PGA Tour golf for Friday, April 1
SportsLine's proven experts share their favorite bets on the Early Edge podcast for Friday, April 1.
Jonathan Coachman is joined by top sports betting experts Mike McClure and Calvin Wetzel on the Early Edge podcast, powered by SportsLine. Get highlighted plays for college basketball and golf on Friday, April 1, and you can stream the show live every morning on the SportsLine YouTube page.
The biggest live event on Friday is the Women's Final Four from Minneapolis, and Calvin likes Stanford at -1 vs. UConn: "An injury to Huskies forward Dorka Juhasz has changed things. While Juhasz isn't one of the stars of the team, she is one of three bigs in the rotation and the other two are foul-prone. We saw that come into play down the stretch in UConn's Elite Eight win over NC State, as Aaliyah Edwards fouled out. Olivia Nelson-Ododa also played a significant stretch of minutes with four fouls, which forced her to give up a few easy baskets at the rim to avoid a fifth foul. Against a Princeton-style offense that loves manufacturing layups and scoring at the rim on back cuts like Stanford, that's not a recipe for success."
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Coach and Mike are focusing on Round 2 of the PGA Tour's Texas Open from TPC San Antonio. Coach likes Matt Kuchar head-to-head over big-hitting Gary Woodland at +110 as the course is more suited for ball-strikers, and he also leans Luke List at -130 over Jason Day.Â
Mike is taking Brendan Steele at -130 over Lee Westwood: "Little juicy but still like it up to -145. Steele is elite in strokes gained off the tee, which is something we really value at this course. Steele ranks fifth on the PGA Tour and was second in Round 1 in that category. He's so good off the tee, which puts him in position to not make mistakes on this course. Westwood was negative in strokes gained off the tee in Round 1."
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