The United States women’s basketball team will take on Canada in a matchup of unbeaten squads in Rio on Friday. The U.S. and Canada are currently tied atop Group B with six points apiece, although the Americans technically hold the top spot thanks to point differential.
USA vs. Canada 2016, Olympic basketball: Time, TV schedule and live stream for USWNT
The U.S. and Canada both enter Friday’s matchup unbeaten in Rio.


NBC will televise Friday’s matchup, with online streaming provided by NBC Sports.
That makes the game on Friday a big one as whoever wins will jump into first place in the group. While the U.S. and Canada are essentially locks to make it out of the group stage and into the quarterfinals, a higher seed could make for an easier trip to the gold medal game.
Led by Diana Taurasi, the Americans have rolled out to a scorching start in Rio. The team has scored 100-plus points in each of its first three games (all wins), becoming the first women’s team in Olympic history to pull off that feat. The latest was a 110-84 win over Serbia in which Taurasi set the Olympic single-game record with six three-pointers.
Nobody has really challenged the Americans yet. When they played Spain, the No. 3 team in the FIBA world rankings, they won by 40 points. And when the U.S. played Canada in an exhibition game last month, the Americans rolled to an easy 83-43 victory.
So while both teams enter Friday with identical 3-0 records, there’s little doubt about who’s the favorite. Canada will be gunning for a major upset that could lead to its first ever Olympic medal. The Canadians have never placed higher than finishing eighth at the 1984 Olympics, when the field was thinned out due to the Eastern Bloc’s boycott of the Games in Los Angeles.
USA vs. Canada women’s basketball coverage for Friday
Start time: 2:30 p.m.
TV: NBCSN
Online Streaming: NBC Sports











