Streets will close around KU campus during and after Monday NCAA game

LAWRENCE -- No vehicles will be allowed access to the central campus of the University of Kansas during and immediately following Monday's NCAA national championship game. The game will begin at 8:18 p.m.

The closures are designed to protect pedestrians and KU's historic central campus. Celebrants are encouraged to join Jayhawk fans at Memorial Stadium, where the game will be shown on the videoboard and postgame activities are planned.

The streets will be closed even if the game watch at Memorial Stadium is cancelled due to frigid or other inclement weather.

The following streets will be closed:

 • Jayhawk Boulevard, east- and westbound, from the Chi Omega fountain on West Campus Road to Oread Avenue and 13th Street

 • Sunflower Road, both directions, from Sunnyside Avenue to Memorial Drive

 • Mississippi Street, southbound, from the entrance to the stadium parking lots to the parking garage entrance

 • Mississippi Street, both directions, from the parking garage entrance to Memorial Drive

 • Memorial Drive, both directions, from Mississippi Street to West Campus Road.

To see a map of the street closures, visit www.jayhawks.ku.edu/roads/closedstreets.html.

Surface parking lots and parking garages will be open and free. To access the parking garage north of the Kansas Union, enter from Oread Avenue. Vehicles may exit but not enter the garage from Mississippi Street.