Kansas head coach Bill Self and his wife Cindy and granddaughter Phoebe ride in a parade Sunday, April 10, 2022, to celebrate the KU men’s basketball team winning the NCAA basketball championship.
They came from all over by the tens of thousands to show love to the 2022 national champion Kansas Jayhawks.
On a perfect spring day in downtown Lawrence, tons of red-and-blue-clad KU fans packed Massachusetts Street [to send off the champs in style with a championship parade][1] that covered 13 blocks and every joyous emotion you can imagine.
Lined up as much as 10 deep on both sides, fans packed Lawrence’s main celebration spot from 6th Street to 19th Street, screaming and cheering as their favorite players and coaches rolled by.
Some held up trophies and tossed out T-Shirts. Others smiled and waved, soaking up the love. Some hopped out of the cars they were in to say hey, sign an autograph or give a high-five. In all, a fleet of 48 cars drove the Jayhawks down Mass. Street in style.
Here’s a look back at some of the fun from inside the barricades.
A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.
