Photos: The 2020 NCAA Women’s Final Four and Nancy Lieberman Charities gift a Dream Court to New Orleans community | Photos

Nancy Lieberman, left, places a spinning basketball onto the finger of Karmen Smith, 5, proper, throughout a dedication ceremony of the refurbished basketball court docket at NORD’s McDonough Playground in New Orleans on Friday, June 11, 2021. Nancy Lieberman Charities, in partnership with Sport Court docket, teamed up with the NCAA and the New Orleans Native Organizing Committee, consisting of Tulane College, the College of New Orleans, the Better New Orleans Sports activities Basis and the Sugar Bowl, to offer the Girls’s Remaining 4 Dream Court docket to the New Orleans group. Previous to COVID-19 forcing the cancellation of the occasion, the Girls’s Remaining 4 Dream Court docket was initially constructed as a part of the 2020 NCAA Girls’s Remaining 4’s dedication to Metropolis of New Orleans. The occasion featured a ribbon slicing, audio system, and kids’s basketball clinic led by the College of New Orleans and Tulane’s Girls’s basketball groups. The 2020 NCAA Girls’s Remaining 4 Semifinals and Championship recreation have been scheduled to happen on the Smoothie King Middle April 3-5, 2020, however the occasion was canceled three weeks prior because of the COVID-19 pandemic.(Photograph by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Occasions-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)