bet365 pays out over $250,000 total, $125,000 to winners of Bracket Challenge

Two Canadian users were awarded $62,500 each - splitting the $125,000 winner's prize - for coming first in the bet365 Bracket Challenge.

In total, bet365 paid out $250,000 across approximately 5,000 users following UConn's title-winning triumph over Purdue on Monday, April 8.

The Huskies became the first reigning champion to successfully defend its title since the Florida went back-to-back in 2006-07.

With UConn's win, the two competition winners finished with 1640 points atop a leaderboard that featured nearly 125,000 entries. Second place took home $10,000, while the third place finished with $5,000. The separation between the top seven positions was only 40 points.

bet365 Bracket Challenge Final Standings

Position	Points
1	1640
1	1640
3	1630
4	1620
5	1610
5	1610
7	1600
7	1600
7	1600
7	1600

bet365 Bracket Challenge Statistics

- 31,223 users accurately picked Connecticut as their national champion

- 12,492 United States-based users picked Connecticut as their national champion (28.7% of all US entries), the most common selection

More on the bet365 Bracket Challenge

The free-to-play game launched more than four weeks ago, with users in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand choosing which teams would win each game throughout all of the rounds. 

A Jackpot prize of $10 million was available for users that could correctly predict a perfect bracket, as well as the below prizes.

• Perfect bracket (all predictions correct) - $10,000,000
• First position - $100,000
• Second position - $25,000
• Third position - $10,000
• Fourth position - $5,000
• Fifth position - $1,000
• Further prizes available up to 5,000th position.

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