{"id":432876,"date":"2025-03-14T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=432876"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:27:47","slug":"march-madness-betting-expected-to-surpass-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/march-madness-betting-expected-to-surpass-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness betting expected to surpass $3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1649\"><strong data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1348\">March Madness<\/strong> remains the <strong data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1398\">biggest betting event in the U.S.<\/strong>, with the <strong data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1446\">American Gaming Association (AGA)<\/strong> estimating <strong data-start=\"1458\" data-end=\"1474\">$3.1 billion<\/strong> in wagers on the <strong data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1530\">NCAA men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments<\/strong>. This marks a <strong data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1576\">15% year-over-year increase<\/strong> and more than <strong data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"1646\">double the Super Bowl\u2019s $1.4 billion betting handle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1913\">Women\u2019s college basketball continues to grow in betting popularity, with BetMGM reporting a <strong data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1759\">35% increase<\/strong> in wagers. Following <strong data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1800\">Caitlin Clark\u2019s<\/strong> transition to the WNBA, new stars like <strong data-start=\"1840\" data-end=\"1889\">JuJu Watkins (USC) and Paige Bueckers (UConn)<\/strong> are driving interest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"2103\">However, a 2024 NCAA study found that <strong data-start=\"1953\" data-end=\"1991\">73% of gambling-related harassment<\/strong> toward athletes occurs during <strong data-start=\"2022\" data-end=\"2039\">March Madness<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"2046\" data-end=\"2100\">women receiving 59% more abusive messages than men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagering on NCAA men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments to more than double Super Bowl bets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":205083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-432876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/march-madness-predictions-buy-sell.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432876"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=432876"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=432876"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=432876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}