DraftKings Offering NJ and US Users Second Chance Brackets

By Carl Zee Aug 19th, 2025 3:13 PM EDT

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So your bracket it busted. Mine is too, it’s ok. There’s only one perfect bracket left and it’s the first one ever to get through the first weekend unscathed.

Luckily for you, DraftKings is offering a chance at some redemption. Until the first Sweet 16 tips off on Thursday, DraftKings Sportsbook is offering new brackets for the remaining tournament, as well as some other offers for players to take advantage of while betting on March Madness.

Sweet 16 Brackets

Ok, so they’re actually called Super Sixteen Brackets, but you probably already figured out what the game is. Via the DraftKings Sportsbook App (and only the app, because these are categorized in DraftKings’ Pool Betting section and isn’t available on desktop yet), one can try to predict the rest of the NCAA tournament.

There are two separate pools for players to bet in. The top-tier pool has a guaranteed prize pool of $25,000 and a paid entry of $20. Another bracket pool has a prize pool of $16,000. Prizes are tiered based on a player’s placement in the overall pool.

The $16,000 pool is open to everyone, which sidesteps the usual gambling laws and makes it legal in all 50 states. The grand prize for this pool is $1,000, with prizes awarded for an astonishing 3,690 places. Only one entry is allowed per user.

The grand prize for the $25,000 pool is $2,500. Because of the paid entry, the $25,000 pool is only available for New Jersey users. The total amount of prizes available in the $25,000 pool only pays the top 375 finishers and allows 16 entries per user. If the pool reaches 1,470 entries, the prize pool will begin to grow.

There are definitely a few ways that the tournament can go from here, but it’s very possible to pick a perfect bracket from the 15 remaining games. The original bracket challenge only offered cash prizes to the top 1,000 brackets, so your chances of finishing in a position to claim some money are far better in this pool.

Other March Madness Offers

On DraftKings Sportsbook, for all New Jersey users, they’re offering a bonus when users place a bet on an NCAA Tournament game.

Players will need to opt-in on the DraftKings Sportsbook page before being able to take advantage. Afterward, placing a pre-game Point Spread bet on any NCAA tournament game before Monday, April 8, will earn a player a matched bonus up to $50 to use at their discretion.

Through this weekend only, DraftKings Sportsbook will also be offering Parlay bonuses on all bets made on American basketball games. Parlays with a minimum of 4 legs placed on NCAA or NBA games are eligible, and each leg of the parlay must have minimum odds of -300.

Should one leg of your parlay lose (and only one leg), then users will be refunded up to $100. Players can only apply this to 4 separate parlays.

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Carl Zee began covering sports through the SB Nation page The Daily Stampede, where he still covers USF soccer.

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