NCAA Women’s Final Four just four weeks away

NEW ORLEANS – The 2020 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship is exactly four weeks away today and #NOLAsTeam is excited to be a co-host of the prestigious event. The NCAA Women’s Final Four is scheduled for April 3 and the championship will be on April 5 at the Smoothie King Center.

New Orleans, Tulane, the Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation partnered to bring exciting basketball to the Crescent City.

“We were awarded this six years ago, so it has been six years in the making. We’re very blessed to have the number of agencies involved,” said Senior Vice President of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation Jeff Rossi. “It is a community-wide effort.”

The event, which is expected to draw close to 30,000 visitors to the greater New Orleans area begins with exciting action at the Convention Center. Best of all? Tourney Town is free for all. For a full schedule of events, please click here.

FROM TIM DUNCAN
On what it means to be a host institution for the 2020 NCAA Women’s Final Four…
“I’m really excited, in my first year, to have experienced all of the events listed off earlier and for the opportunity to partner with Tulane, which is one of the exceptional institutions in the New Orleans metro area. So, to partner with them on an event, this prestigious is awesome. I’m really excited to be a part of the Women’s Final Four because I haven’t had a chance to go before. To be on this on this end and see all the behind the scenes stuff and all that work that Jeff (Rossi) and everyone else has put in is awesome.”

On UNO’s Lakefront Arena hosting the 1991 NCAA Women’s Final Four and the event being back in New Orleans for a record fourth time…
As a native Memphian, I was very familiar with the Tennessee Volunteers and what kind of great legacy that Coach (Pat) Summitt had with those teams, so Lakefront Arena has been listed in the pantheon of events that this city has hosted before. We’re really excited to help kick it off and we’re still a part of it almost 30 years later. It’s a wonderful opportunity and we’re proud to be co-hosting.”