US women’s basketball roster, schedule as knockout round begins

No team has been as dominant in the Olympics than the U.S. women’s national basketball team, and they are now three games away from continuing their success with another gold medal.
The American women have been playing like the best team in the world so far in the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning its three group stage games by 19.3 points. Team USA is now in the knockout round, and it will needs to maintain its perfect record if it wants to win a remarkable eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal.
Here’s what to know about the U.S. women’s national basketball squad ahead of its quarterfinal matchup:
The U.S. women’s 5×5 national team “features some of the best basketball talent our country has to offer,” head coach Cheryl Reeve said. The team not only has talent, but it boasts major international experience. The players that make up the 2024 U.S. women’s Olympic team have a combined 15 Olympic gold medals between them.
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*Each asterisk marks the number of Olympic appearances, including 2024 Paris 
USA women’s basketball went 3-0 in Group C and advanced to the knockout round. Here’s the dates for the U.S. games: 
The semifinals will be on Friday, Aug. 9 (11:30 a.m. or 3 p.m. ET) and the gold medal game is Sunday, Aug. 11 (9:30 a.m. ET).
Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, is the head coach of the 2024 USA women’s national team. Kara Lawson (Duke), Joni Taylor (Texas A&M) and Mike Thibault (Washington Mystics) are Reeve’s assistant coaches. Reeve and her staff previously led the USA women to a gold medal at the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup.
Curt Miller (Los Angeles Sparks) and Tanisha Wright (Atlanta Dream) will assist the team as scouts.
USA women’s basketball has medaled in every Olympics it has participated, winning a total of 11 Olympic medals, including nine gold, one sliver and one bronze. Here’s how the U.S. women have performed since 1976, when women’s basketball debuted at the Montreal Olympics:
Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) are the only two American women’s basketball players to win five Olympic gold medals. Taurasi can become the first to earn six gold medals in Paris. 
Here’s the Olympic medal count for every player on the U.S. women’s roster for Paris: