The 2024 Super Bowl set records in sports betting, with an estimated 68 million adults saying they would place wagers on the game. In the two weeks preceding that event, nearly 1.8 million people signed up for online betting accounts — which are now legal in 30 of the 38 states, plus D.C., that allow sports betting. And now the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are upon us. If history is any guide, there will be even more betting on March Madness than there was on the Super Bowl.
These events confirm the importance of Murphy v. NCAA, the Supreme Court ruling half a dozen years ago that permitted states other than Nevada to legalize sports gambling.
