All bets are on

Friday, March 30, 2007

Brackets are falling apart for students on campus now that Kansas is out of the tournament. Although bracket pools are illegal, many students place bets with friends on their picks for the NCAA tournament.

Luke Hanson, Eden Prairie, Minn., freshman, bet $10 with a group of friends from high school on a bracket and picked Kansas to win. He said his friends from home did not share his bias for the Jayhawks and that he had already incorrectly picked too many games to have a chance at winning. Hanson said he followed college basketball but did not use logic for all of his picks.

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“Some are just gut picks,” he said.

Not all students stayed loyal to the Jayhawks when filling out their brackets. Dustin Smith, Austin, Texas, senior, picked Memphis to win the tournament. He and his roommates each put $5 into a bracket pool. Smith said he had already lost because he picked too many upsets.

Neither Smith nor Hanson worried about potential legal repercussions of gambling on the tournament.

“Catch me if you can,” Smith said.

“I bet the cops have office pools too,” Hanson said.

Kim Murphree, Lawrence Police Department spokesperson, said she wasn’t aware of anyone being fined or prosecuted for gambling on bracket pools.

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Even in Las Vegas, where gambling is legal, there aren’t any bracket pools to gamble on legally, said Jill Hersch, supervisor at the New York, New York sports book on Las Vegas Boulevard.

Hersch said the most common bets placed on college basketball were point-spread bets, over-under bets and standard bets. A point spread is how much a team is predicted to win by, over under-bets predict the total number of points the two teams will score and standard bets simply predict who will win the game.

Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan.com.

— Edited by Kelly Lanigan

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