It sounds like Rutgers and Seton Hall fans who want to wager on their teams will need to keep driving to Delaware or Pennsylvania.
A November ballot question proposing a constitutional amendment that would permit New Jersey sportsbooks to take bets on in-state college teams and events is unlikely to pass, according to a recent poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University-Madison. Only 25% of registered voters surveyed are in favor of the amendment, according to the poll, with 49% opposed and 26% either undecided or declining to answer the question.
“Supporters are going to need to change a lot of minds if they want to get this passed,” said poll executive director Dan Cassino, a professor of government and politics at FDU, in a release.
Sports betting has been legal in New Jersey since 2018, but it remains the only state among the 26 that has sports betting to keep in-state college teams off the books by law.
Sportsbook operators that do business here typically don’t even write lines for games featuring in-state schools or include them in futures betting. Betting on all college sporting events in New Jersey is also prohibited, regardless of where a school is located. Case in point: The 2021 MAAC Tournament men’s basketball final at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City featured Fairfield and Iona, but no casino in town could have taken bets on the game down the road. Supporters of the amendment hoped in part to prevent a similar situation when Newark’s Prudential Center hosts the NCAA men’s basketball Tournament’s East Regional in 2025.
The state Assembly voted 74-0 in June to approve the ballot question (SCR133). The state Senate passed it 36-1 earlier that month. But despite the support in Trenton, Cassino said New Jersey’s off-year gubernatorial cycle will likely make it tough for the measure to pass since the electorate tends to be disproportionately older and less inclined to change the status quo.
“This change might have had a better chance in a higher turnout year,” Cassino said. “But among the voters who tend to turn out the most, there’s just no appetite for expanding gaming yet again. ... Opposition is some combination of not wanting to change things without understanding the options, and just plain opposition to more expansion of gambling in the state. Supporters have to explain what they’re proposing, and hope that voters are going to buy in.”
NJ Advance Media staff writer Brent Johnson contributed to this report
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