Top-ranked Kansas’ win over Texas earned the Jayhawks a Big 12 championship on Monday night and earned one bettor the biggest progressive jackpot in William Hill Nevada history.
The $5 entry, which was purchased at the Tuscany Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday morning, brought $305,375 as the bettor correctly picked the straight-up winners in 15 games over the weekend. It was the only winner among more than 10,000 entries over the weekend.
Here are the winning selections:
- Golden State Warriors over Oklahoma City Thunder
- Detroit Pistons over Toronto Raptors
- Kansas over Texas
- Texas over Oklahoma
- Utah over Arizona
- Mississippi State over South Carolina
- Vanderbilt over Kentucky
- Purdue over Maryland
- Stanford over UCLA
- Middle Tennessee State over Marshall
- Arkansas over Tennessee
- Gonzaga over BYU
- Ohio State over Iowa
- Wisconsin over Michigan
- California over USC
The jackpot had been building since a bettor won $100,000 in December (reportedly on her second lifetime bet), and was by far the largest in contest history. It surpassed previous records in late January when it hit $180,000 after a bettor missed on the 15th game that would’ve won $163,000.
AROUND THE WEB
- The Whale That Nearly Drowned The Donald; How Trump schemed to win back millions from a doomed high roller.
- Georgia’s Attorney General issued a letter declaring daily fantasy sports to be illegal gambling in the state, and the legislature responded by deciding not to take up a bill that would exempt DFS from gambling laws.
- A breakdown of the evolution of the DFS bill in Indiana, which took another step forward Monday.
LOOK WHO’S TALKING
“You guys know I like to bet on sports, but I’m looking forward to stepping back from betting in sports now. I’m looking forward to probably getting into ownership of an NBA team.” —Floyd Mayweather at a press conference for an upcoming fight between Ashley Theophane and Adrien Broner.
TWEETS OF NOTE
AP Top 5 & Odds to win it all
1. Kansas +700
2. Mich St +700
3. Nova +1200
4. Virginia +1200
5. X +1800https://t.co/3wo2QEKp9x— Dave Mason (@DaveMasonBOL) February 29, 2016
NFL is not anti-gambling, only anti-sports betting. Unless there was a sports book on the boat, non-issue for NFL. https://t.co/RWAUGnkMVE — David Payne Purdum (@DavidPurdum) February 29, 2016
ODDS & ENDS
- Rory McIlroy is the 8/1 favorite at this week’s WGC Cadillac Championship.
- A look inside the new sports book at the Cosmopolitan.
- Safe to say that testing the waters of free agency didn’t turn out as Ian Desmond had planned.
- Erin Andrews says ESPN forced her to go on TV and talk about her stalker.