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The USA women’s basketball team is in Tokyo to play in the Summer Olympics. Here’s how to watch the team take on Nigeria, Japan and France in the group stage of the women’s basketball tournament in Tokyo and everything you need to know about the team.

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While you’ll need to stay up a bit past your bedtime to watch them play, it’ll be worth it to see some of the WNBA’s best players take to the court against the world.

The women’s team is coming off a stinging loss to the WNBA All-Star team on July 14, but is expected to contend for a gold medal at the Olympics once again.

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When does Team USA women’s basketball play?

Tuesday, July 27: USA 81, Nigera 72
Friday, July 30: USA 86, Japan 69
Monday, Aug. 2: USA 93, France 82
Quarterfinals, Aug. 4: Defeated Australia 79-55
Semifinals, Aug. 6: vs. Serbia, 12:40 a.m. ET
Gold medal game, Aug. 8: TBD

What TV channel will the games be on?

The Olympics will be broadcast on NBC’s family of networks. The opening round games will all air live on USA Network.

How can I stream the games online?

Stream the games using Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC Sports and YouTube TV.

Who is on the USA women’s basketball roster?

Ariel Atkins (Guard, Washington Mystics), Sue Bird (Guard, Seattle Storm), Tina Charles (Center, Washington Mystics), Napheesa Collier (Guard/Forward, Minnesota Lynx), Skylar Diggins-Smith (Guard, Phoenix Mercury), Sylvia Fowles (Center, Minnesota Lynx), Chelsea Gray (Guard, Las Vegas Aces), Brittney Griner (Center, Phoenix Mercury), Jewell Loyd (Guard, Seattle Storm), Breanna Stewart (Forward/Center, Seattle Storm), Diana Taurasi (Guard, Phoenix Mercury), A’ja Wilson (Forward, Las Vegas Aces).

For more on all the American Olympians, including men’s and women’s basketball, check out our Team USA roster page.

What format is the women’s basketball tournament?

It’s a 12-team tournament broken into three groups of four teams. Each team plays the others in its group and will earn two points for a win, one point for a loss and no points for a forfeit. The top two teams from each group, as well as the best two third-place teams, will advance to the quarterfinals.

Quarterfinal winners will advance to the semifinals and the winners will play for gold and silver in the finals. A bronze medal game will take place between the losers of the semifinals.

How many gold medals has Team USA won?

The USA women’s basketball Team has eight Olympic gold medals to its name and has won gold at six consecutive Olympics, last failing to win gold 1992.

Michael Johnson carries the American flag while taking his victory lap after winning the 200 meter final, setting a world record at 19:32 at the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta. Johnson won the 200 and 400 at the same games, the only person to complete the double.

USA’s Abbey D’Agostino is helped by Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand during the women’s 5000 meter preliminaries in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games. During the race Hamblin fell with D’Agostino close behind taking her down also, D’Agostino awkwardly twisting her leg. Hamblin stopped to help D’Agostino up, one of the great moments in sportsmanship, and both finished the race, each allowed to compete in the final despite finishing outside the limit. D’Agostino did not compete in the final because of her injuries.

During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took the medal stand and raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the national anthem. Smith had just won gold and set a world record of 19.83 seconds in the 200-meter dash. Carlos won bronze and to their right on the medal stand was Australian sprinter Peter Norman with silver.

Bob Beamon of the USA breaks the Long Jump World Record during the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Beamon long jumped 29 ft 2 1/2 in, winning the gold medal and setting a new world record. It is the first jump over 28 ft. While the middle distance runners from the low level countries floundered in the thin air of Mexico City, those in the explosive events reached new peaks, none higher than Beamon, who added almost 23 inches to the world record with a jump. In Imperial measure terms it looked even more impressive since he missed out 28 feet, taking the record to 29 ft 2 ins. It was twelve years before anyone else reached 28 feet and the record stood until 1991 when Mike Powell of the US leapt 29.3 feet in Tokyo to win the world title.

McKayla Maroney reacts on the podium after winning the silver medal in the vault competition at North Greenwich Arena in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Her reaction ended up being on of the most viral moments of the games.

Mary Decker (USA) lies injured on the ground after getting tripped up by Zola Budd (ENG) (not pictured) during the women’s 3000m event at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics on Aug. 10, 1984.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee performs the high jump during the Heptathlon in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea on Sept. 3, 1988. One of the greatest athletes of all time, Joyner-Kersee shattered the world record for the Heptathlon during the five discipline event with a score of 7,291 which stood until 2008. She won a total of three gold, one silver and two bronze in her four Olympics.

American Bill Mills wins the 10,000 meter race ahead of Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi and Australian Ron Clarke as part of the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games on October 14, 1964. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Mills won the 10,000 meters, still the only American to ever win the race.

Gold medalist Matthias Steiner of Germany holds a picture of his late wife Susann, who died in a car accident in 2007, at the podium of the men’s over 105 kg of the weightlifting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.

Ben Johnson of Canada, right, leads the pack to win the 100-meter dash finals in Olympic competition Saturday in Seoul. American Carl Lewis is at center and Linford Christie, far left, of Great Britain was third. Johnson was later stripped of his medal after testing positive for steroids. Carl Lewis was given gold.

In this Aug.11,1936 file photo, long jump medalists salute during the medals ceremony at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. From left on podium are: bronze medalist Jajima of Japan, gold medalist Jesse Owens of the United States and silver medalist Lutz Long of Germany. Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Games setting a world record in the 200 meters and helping the 4×100 meter relay to another record.

Angel Valodia Matos of Cuba lands a kick to the head of referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden after being disqualified from his bronze medal contest in the men’s +80 kg taekwondo competition against Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing.

Technically still at war, Olympic athletes from North and South Korea march together as one team into Olympic Stadium during Opening Ceremonies at the 2000 Sydney games. The idea of joining the 180 team members was suggested before a summit of the two Korean leaders who’s peninsula has been separated since 1953.

Derek Redmond of Great Britain winces in pain as he is helped by his father, Jim Redmond at the end of the men’s 400 meter semi-final. He was injured mid-way through the race, snapping his hamstring, but insisted on finishing. Redmond’s father broke from stands and chased by officials, reached his son to help him cross the finish line, creating one of the most inspirational moments of all time.

A hoax student athlete enters the stadium at the end of the marathon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, causing confusion for everyone including eventual winner Frank Shorter who followed on the track at the same time. Shorter was the third American to win the marathon, but it was the third time that an American would enter the stadium second. In 1904 and 1908, both “winners” were disqualified for cheating and getting illegal help.

Katie Ledecky of the United States reacts after winning the Women’s 800m Freestyle Final on Day 7 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre on Aug. 3, 2012 in London, England. Ledecky was only fifteen years old. She would go on to win four gold and a silver at the 2016 Rio games and is one of the favorites for gold in Tokyo.

Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila runs barefoot for victory in the Rome 1960 Olympic Games marathon, after passing Moroccan Abdeslam Radi, on Sept. 10, 1960. One of the greatest marathon runners ever, Bikila would also win the 1964 Tokyo marathon, the first person to win consecutively,

An unidentified man grabs Vanderlei Lima of Brazil during the Men’s Marathon event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Lima was leading the race when the man pushed him off the course. He would eventually finish third.

Athletes from Tonga are led by flag bearer Pita Nikolas Taufatofua during the opening ceremonies of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Maracana. The moment went viral making the taekwondo athlete Taufatofua a sensation. He would repeat as flag bearer, topless, at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games as a cross country skier.

Eric Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea has the start blocks to himself as the other two entrants in the first heat of the 100 meter freestyle fouled out with false starts at the Sydney International Aquatic Center on Sept. 19, 2000.

Bela Karolyi holds Kerri Strug after the USA team won the gold medal Tuesday in team gymnastics finals in Atlanta. Strug injured her leg on a vault when she landed short, but bravely came through on her second. Karolyi carried Strug to the medal ceremony creating one of the most iconic images in sports.

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