March Madness: Drake LOSES $20K after UConn beats San Diego State 76-59

Drake lost $20,000 bets on UConn Monday night after the Huskies defeated San Diego State 76-59, failing to quite capture the team’s final margin of victory.

The Canadian rapper placed two huge bets on the winners, as he shared with his 134 million Instagram followers hours before the match.

Drake bet $250,000 on the Huskies winning the game by 6-10 points, and also placed $100,000 on winning the game by at least 11 points.

The first bet would have paid $1.085 million, while the second netted him $230,000 and caused him to almost break even.

It is far from the first time that Drake has placed big money bets on a sports final.

In December, he placed $1 million on Argentina to beat France in normal time in the World Cup final.

That bet backfired, as the match ended 2–2 at the end of 90 minutes at the Lusail Stadium, before Argentina won on penalties.

After that, Drake set his sights on the Super Bowl in February, where he hit just one of his seven bets.

He correctly predicted that the Chiefs would win the game and win $1.477 million from that pick after a $700,000 bet.

However, none of the rest of his bets worth the remaining $265,000 were successful.

The rapper bet $50,000 each on Patrick Mahomes and Juju Smith-Schuster scoring the first Chiefs touchdown (to bet: the correct answer was Travis Kelce), while also betting the same amount that the Chiefs would win both halves.

In addition, he placed another $30,000 on the Chiefs winning each quarter, while betting $25,000 that Travis Kelce would be named Super Bowl MVP and $60,000 that the winner of the award would be a tight end.