Later this month, the USA Basketball Females’s Nationwide Group will head to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics making an try for a historical seventh straight gold medal. This might maybe occasionally per chance maybe also look to lengthen an improbable 49-game a success jog at the Olympics, which dates lend a hand to the bronze medal game in 1992.
Leading the kind for Group USA shall be nationwide team stalwarts equivalent to Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, as effectively as up-and-coming stars tackle Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson. Below a revamped format, the ladies folks will originate up play with factual three neighborhood stage games. Qualifying teams will then when it comes to the knockout stage.
Play is blueprint to originate up on July 25 with the first neighborhood stage game, and kill on Aug. 8 with the gold medal game. Sooner than the tournament, here’s every thing which you might maybe enjoy to learn about Group USA and ladies folks’s basketball at the Olympics.
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Group USA roster
| Ariel Atkins | Guard | Washington Mystics |
| Sue Bird | Guard | Seattle Storm |
| Skylar Diggins-Smith | Guard | Phoenix Mercury |
| Chelsea Grey | Guard | Las Vegas Aces |
| Jewell Loyd | Guard | Seattle Storm |
| Diana Taurasi | Guard | Phoenix Mercury |
| Napheesa Collier | Forward | Minnesota Lynx |
| Breanna Stewart | Forward | Seattle Storm |
| A’ja Wilson | Forward | Las Vegas Aces |
| Tina Charles | Heart | Washington Mystics |
| Sylvia Fowles | Heart | Minnesota Lynx |
| Brittney Griner | Heart | Phoenix Mercury |
Olympic preliminary spherical teams
- Group A: Canada, Serbia, Spain, South Korea
- Group B: France, Japan, Nigeria, United States
- Group C: Australia, Belgium, China, Puerto Rico
Exhibition schedule, outcomes
(All cases U.S./Eastern)
Wednesday, July 14
WNBA All-Stars 93, United States 85
Friday, July 16
Australia 70, United States 67
Sunday, July 18
United States 93, Nigeria 62
Preliminary neighborhood stage spherical
(All cases U.S./Eastern)
Sunday, July 25
Group A: Spain 73, South Korea 69
Monday, July 26
Group A: Serbia 72, Canada 68
Group B: Japan 74, France 70
Tuesday, July 27
Group B: United States 81, Nigeria 72
Group C: Australia vs. Belgium, 4: 30 a.m.
Group C: Puerto Rico vs. China, 8 a.m.
Wednesday, July 28
Group A: Canada vs. South Korea, 9 p.m.
Thursday, July 29
Group A: Spain vs. Serbia, 4: 20 a.m.
Group C: Belgium vs. Puerto Rico, 9 p.m.
Friday, July 30
Group B: United States vs. Japan, 12: 40 a.m. (USA)
Group B: France vs. Nigeria, 4: 20 a.m.
Group C: China vs. Australia, 8 a.m.
Saturday, July 31
Group A: Canada vs. Spain, 9 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 1
Group A: South Korea vs. Serbia, 8 a.m.
Group B: Nigeria vs. Japan, 9 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 2
Group B: France vs. United States, 12: 40 a.m. (USA)
Group C: China vs. Belgium, 4: 20 a.m.
Group C: Australia vs. Puerto Rico, 8 a.m.
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, Aug. 3
TBD vs. TBD, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 4
TBD vs. TBD, 12: 40 a.m.
TBD vs. TBD, 4: 20 a.m.
TBD vs. TBD, 8 a.m.
Semifinals
Friday, Aug. 6
Quarterfinals 1 winner vs. Quarterfinals 2 winner, 12: 40 a.m.
Quarterfinals 3 winner vs. Quarterfinals 4 winner, 7 a.m.
Bronze Medal Sport
Saturday, Aug. 7
Semifinals 1 loser vs. Semifinals 2 loser, 3 a.m.
Gold Medal Sport
Saturday, Aug. 7
Semifinals 1 winner vs. Semifinals 2 winner, 10: 30 p.m.