Parade celebrating KU’s NCAA Championship victory will be Sunday afternoon in downtown Lawrence
photo by: Chad Lawhorn/Journal-World
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self addresses a Lawrence crowd on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, one day after KU won the NCAA National Championship.
Story updated at 7:49 p.m. Wednesday:
A parade to celebrate the University of Kansas men’s basketball team’s NCAA Championship victory will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday in downtown Lawrence, the university announced Wednesday evening.
A news release from KU said the parade would run south on Massachusetts Street from Sixth Street to 19th Street. In addition to the men’s basketball team, the parade will also feature the university spirit squad and band, according to the release.
Massachusetts Street will be closed to traffic from 3 a.m. Sunday until roughly two hours after the end of the parade, the release said.
Beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday, fans can park on the KU campus in Lot 90, the Burge Union and the Computer Center and take a shuttle to downtown, according to the release. The shuttles will run for up to an hour after the parade, as well.







