The Connecticut Lottery has started to sell scratch-off tickets which promote the many national championships won by UConn basketball teams. Paige Bueckers, pictured above. The UConn women’s basketball star is one of many well-known players on the women’s and men’s teams. The state lottery recently began offering a game honoring the teams. (Image: UConn WBB Weekly) The limited-edition Championship scratch-off tickets began selling on Monday for $5 each at more than 2,800 retail locations throughout the state. Lottery players may have up to $3.5M in winnings. The three top prizes in the game are $50K each. It’s a great evolution, I think, for us — working with UConn. And we are also leaning into that ‘basketball capital of the world’ designation that UConn and the governor’s office had worked on,” Brett Steen, senior director of marketing at the Connecticut Lottery, recently told New Haven TV station WTNH. The total number of available tickets in the game are 1,026,500, according to… Read More
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