Is Sports Betting Legal in Indiana? Yes, and Props Are Live

Yes. Sports betting is legal in Indiana, in person and on your phone, for anyone 21 or older who is physically inside the state. Eleven mobile sportsbooks were live in the Gaming Commission’s June 2026 filing, the tax is 9.5%, and there is no in-person signup step at all: you can open an account and bet from your couch.

There is also a deadline on this page. Indiana is one of the last states where you can still bet a college player prop before the game starts. The NCAA formally asked the Indiana Gaming Commission to end that, and on June 25, 2026 the Commission tabled the request rather than deciding it. It takes the matter back up on September 24, 2026.

Quick facts

The college prop rule, and the date that could end it

This is the thing worth knowing about Indiana, and almost every guide gets it wrong in one direction or the other.

Pre-game college player props are legal in Indiana. When the Gaming Commission acted in 2024, it did not ban college player props outright the way Ohio and Maryland did. Its July 1, 2024 directive banned only the in-play subset, in one sentence: “In-play, collegiate player proposition wagers are prohibited.” Before the game starts, those markets stay on the board.

That is now under direct threat. The NCAA submitted a formal request on March 3, 2026 asking the Commission to prohibit all individual player proposition betting on college athletes. This was not lobbying: Indiana’s law gives the NCAA a statutory right to petition, and the Commission’s own order says it “shall grant the request upon a demonstration of good cause.”

At its June 25, 2026 meeting the Commission heard the NCAA alongside the Sports Betting Alliance, with letters submitted by Butler, Indiana University and Purdue, and then tabled the request by signed order rather than voting it up or down. One commissioner’s stated reason was that two members were attending their first meeting and the decision should not be rushed. The next meeting is September 24, 2026, and there is nothing scheduled in between. So college player props stay on the board at least until then, in roughly week four or five of the football season.

Two details make this more fragile than it looks.

The rule is not a law. Indiana’s college betting limits live in an executive director’s directive and an approved-events list, not in a statute or even a regulation. The directive says of itself that it “is subject to change and will be updated as appropriate.” That means the rule can flip with no legislation, no rulemaking and no comment period. Maryland’s college prop ban has the same shape: it is a regulator’s catalog entry rather than a rule, and a bill to write it into law died in the Maryland Senate this year.

And the permission is narrower than “college.” Indiana allows wagering only on NCAA Division I, so Division II and III are off the board entirely, and only in the sports the Commission’s approved-events list actually names. Counting that list as of its December 2025 revision, that is twelve sports. Separately, a content-based ban applies to everyone, college and pro: no props on injuries, arrests, suspensions or officiating decisions.

For the record, all four schools people ask about clear the Division I bar: IU, Purdue and Notre Dame are FBS, and Butler is Division I with FCS football.

What else you can bet

Team bets on Indiana schools are fully legal, and Indiana has neither of the two restrictions that trip people up elsewhere. There is no ban on in-state teams, which New York has, and no ban on games played inside the state, which New Jersey has. Bet the Hoosiers, the Boilermakers, the Fighting Irish or the Bulldogs without thinking about it.

The age is 21 statewide, and unlike Nevada or Washington, there is no in-person step anywhere in the process. Daily fantasy is legal, including pick’em products that several states have pushed out.

Who you can bet with

Eleven mobile sportsbooks appear in the Indiana Gaming Commission’s June 2026 filing: DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Fanatics, bet365, Caesars Sportsbook, Hard Rock Bet, BetRivers, theScore Bet, Bally Bet, and SBK. That is our count of the regulator’s own report, and the roster has been stable at eleven every month since December 2025.

Two things about that list are worth knowing.

DraftKings and FanDuel take roughly two thirds of the money. In June 2026 they handled about 36% and 27% of Indiana’s wagers respectively. The remaining nine split the rest, and the smallest, SBK, took about two hundredths of one percent.

One brand files under a name it has not used publicly in years. The Commission’s spreadsheet still lists Caesars as “WilliamHill.com,” a legacy of the 2021 acquisition that nobody updated. The app on your phone is Caesars Sportsbook. If you see a site claiming William Hill is live in Indiana, that is somebody reading the state’s own file too literally.

Indiana has been open since 2019, which means it has a longer list of departures than a newer market. Sixteen sportsbook skins have operated in Indiana and stopped. Two of those are rebrands rather than exits, and they are the ones that confuse the listicles: ESPN BET became theScore Bet in December 2025, and PointsBet became Fanatics in early 2024. If a page still shows ESPN BET, PointsBet, Barstool, Betway or WynnBET as Indiana options, it is out of date.

In-person betting runs through the state’s casinos, with fifteen retail locations. Four properties take bets only in person and have no app attached at all, including Caesars Southern Indiana.

The money, and the year Indiana went backwards

Indiana taxes sports betting at 9.5% of adjusted gross revenue, which is among the lowest rates in the country. Be careful with that comparison though: Iowa’s 6.75% and Michigan’s 8.4% are both lower, so “among the lowest” is right and “the lowest” is not. Michigan’s is also calculated on a narrower base, since it lets operators deduct free play, which Indiana does not. Indiana keeps the whole 9.5% at state level with no local share.

Attempts to raise it have gone nowhere, which is a genuine contrast with the states that moved in 2025 and 2026: Illinois added a per-bet fee on top of a graduated tax, New Jersey, North Carolina and Maryland all raised their rates. Indiana’s 9.5% has not moved since launch.

Now the part that makes Indiana unusual among mature markets. Its handle went backwards for a full calendar year. Indiana’s wagering fell about 3% in 2023, with ten consecutive months of year-over-year decline from October 2022 through July 2023. The worst month was January 2023, down about 14%, which was the month Ohio opened next door.

The tempting story is that Indiana boomed on out-of-state bettors and lost them as its neighbours legalized. That is partly true and partly not, and the honest version is more interesting. The slide started three months before Ohio opened, so Ohio cannot be the whole explanation. A better candidate for the start of it is Illinois dropping its in-person registration requirement in March 2022, which mattered because Chicago is minutes from the Indiana casinos in Hammond and East Chicago. Meanwhile Michigan’s 2021 online launch left no visible dent, and Kentucky’s 2023 launch is invisible in the numbers.

And Indiana got the money back. Handle rose about 20% in 2024 and about 10% in 2025, setting a record year and an all-time monthly high in November 2025. What did not come back is the growth rate.

Prediction markets: Indiana has sued nobody

Indiana has taken no enforcement action of its own against Kalshi or any other prediction market. There is no cease-and-desist and no lawsuit, and Indiana is not one of the nine states the federal government has sued.

That does not mean the state is neutral. Attorney General Todd Rokita has repeatedly put Indiana’s name on the states’ side of the fight in other states’ cases, signing multistate amicus briefs in the Fourth Circuit Maryland case in December 2025, a Ninth Circuit tribal case in January 2026, the consolidated Ninth Circuit Nevada appeals in March 2026, and the Sixth Circuit Ohio case in June 2026, plus a multistate comment letter to the federal regulator in April 2026. Three of those briefs came before the letter.

Here is why Indiana may end up bound by a decision it never litigated. Indiana sits in the Seventh Circuit alongside Illinois and Wisconsin, and both of those states have active prediction-market cases in federal court. A Seventh Circuit ruling in either would apply to Indiana without Indiana ever being a party.

Nationally, no federal appeals court has yet ruled on the merits of whether federal commodities law overrides state gambling law.

Online casino needs a bill, not a ballot

Indiana has no legal online casino, and it has tried several times. What makes it different from Maryland is how far away it is.

Indiana’s constitution contains no gambling provision at all. The clause that once banned lotteries was repealed in 1988, and the current text does not use the words lottery, gambling, gaming, wager, casino or betting anywhere. Every expansion since, from riverboats to racinos to sports betting, has come by ordinary statute. So online casino in Indiana needs a bill and nothing more.

Maryland, by contrast, needs a voter referendum at a general election, has failed four years running and has never once had a Senate floor vote, which puts its earliest possible referendum in November 2028. Indiana could do it in any session it chose. It just has not.

The 2026 short session shows why. The online casino text was offered twice as floor amendments to a lottery bill, and the Speaker ruled both out of order on January 13, 2026. The lottery bill itself then died in the House without a third reading. No online casino bill has reached a floor vote.

Frequently asked questions

Can I bet college player props in Indiana? Before the game starts, yes, which puts Indiana in a shrinking group. In-play college player props are banned. The Gaming Commission takes up the NCAA’s request to ban pre-game props too on September 24, 2026.

Can I bet on IU, Purdue or Notre Dame? Yes, at team level, with no in-state restriction of any kind.

Do I have to sign up in person? No. Indiana is fully remote.

Which apps work in Indiana? Eleven, led by DraftKings and FanDuel. Ignore any list showing ESPN BET or PointsBet: those became theScore Bet and Fanatics.

Is online casino legal in Indiana? No. Unlike some states it would take only a bill rather than a public vote, but no such bill has reached a floor vote.