Enjoy March Madness With Basketball Themed Online Slots

• Published: March 10, 2016
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With the March Madness basketball event in full swing, basketball themed online slot games draw high traffic. The best of the lot are Basketbull and Basketball Star.

Basketbull video slot is from Realtime Gaming. The striking feature of this online slot is that animals represent the various characters involved with the sport. The professional basketball player is depicted as a bull. It is the wild symbol and it also awards the highest line payout of 10,000 times the line bet. Other symbols awarding line payouts are cow as the cheerleader, bulldog as the coach and ram as the referee. The playing card icons are shown like the numbers on basketball jerseys. The scatter symbol is the basketball. When you land three or more of these anywhere on the reels the Free Throw Feature is triggered. You start with three free spins. For each basketball symbol in the triggering spin, you are given one free throw. Each successful throw doubles the number of free spins awarded. All payouts during the free spins are tripled and the free spins can be retriggered. If you win below specified levels in the Free Throw Feature then the Win-Win feature will come into play and you will be awarded compensation. Basketbull also features the Realtime Gaming twin randomly triggered progressive jackpots that can be hit after any spin without any alignment of symbols on the reels.

Basketball Star is a more recent basketball themed online slot game and is from Microgaming. The high paying symbols are basketball players that get realistically animated in the win combinations. The low paying symbols include gold medal, sneakers, energy drink and the basketball court. The Basketball Star logo is the wild symbol and it can appear stacked on reels 3, 4 and 5. The basketball is the scatter symbol. In the Rolling Reels feature after wins are paid out, the symbols in the winning combinations disappear are replaced by new ones. If new winning combinations are formed then you will be paid again and the process will repeat. In the randomly triggered Wild Shot feature up to two reels will get converted into wild reels with a guarantee of a payout. You can win up to 25 free spins in Basketball Star online slot game. During the free spins, consecutive wins in the Rolling Reels feature are paid out with increasing multipliers, which can reach 10x. Basketball Star has the popular Microgaming 243 ways to win structure so there are no defined paylines.