ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Fewer Americans expect to fill out brackets for the NCAA's college basketball tournament this year, but the overall number of people making bets on March Madness should remain about the same as the last time the tournament was held, according to the gambling industry's national trade association.
The American Gaming Association released figures Sunday predicting that more than 47 million Americans plan to make a bet -- legal or otherwise -- on March Madness this year. That's about the same number who said they planned to bet on the 2019 tournament.
The tournament was canceled in 2020 shortly before it was scheduled to begin just as the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic by the World Health Organization.