The penultimate day of ladies’s 3×3 basketball on the 2024 Paris Olympics will tip-off this Saturday, Aug. 3, starting with the ultimate spherical of pool play video games and culminating with the primary two video games (or “play-in” video games) of the 3×3 event.
Because the event schedule received’t technically be set till after Saturday’s pool video games have been determined, it’s laborious to foretell what’s going to occur when Olympic medals are on the road. Listed here are the pool play standings to this point:
- Germany (5-1)
- Spain (4-2)
- Australia (4-2)
- United States (3-3)
- Canada (3-3)
- Azerbaijan (2-4)
- China (2-4)
- France (1-5)
The one factor set in stone is that France, with only one win and one recreation remaining, is not going to make the event and thus be eradicated from the competitors. Germany, in the meantime, is within the driver’s seat to advance on to the semifinals that start on Monday, Aug. 5, however they’ll nonetheless want to complete pool play sturdy on Saturday to clinch the top-two end wanted for a play-in bye.
The remainder of the pool stays utterly up within the air. China and Azerbaijan can be in must-win conditions, whereas america may also attempt to sneak into the event after starting pool play at 0-3. With the way in which the ultimate spherical of pool video games are arrange, there’s even a chance that america, Canada, Azerbaijan and China all end pool play with a 3-4 file, which might create an unenviable four-way tiebreaker state of affairs during which head-to-head data would determine who strikes on and who’s eradicated, based on the FIBA 3×3 rulebook.
The US can’t fear about that now. They’ve dug themselves out of an early gap in pool play, night their file at 3-3 after a last-second Rhyne Howard basket lifted them over Canada. Whereas america hasn’t fairly lived as much as the lofty expectations it earned with gold medals within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup, they’ve turned what may have been a catastrophe in Paris right into a state of affairs that’s nonetheless salvageable. Ending pool play sturdy in opposition to China would put america within the event part, at which level something may occur—for higher or for worse.
Sport data
Azerbaijan vs. Canada
When: Saturday, August 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: Peacock
Spain vs. Germany
When: Saturday, August 3 at 12:00 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: Peacock
France vs. Australia
When: Saturday, August 3 at 12:35 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: Peacock
China vs. United States
When: Saturday, August 3 at 1:05 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: CNBC
Play-in recreation (No. 4 vs. No. 5)
When: Saturday, August 3 at 3:30 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: Peacock
Play-in recreation (No. 3 vs. No. 6)
When: Saturday, August 3 at 4:05 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
How one can watch: USA Community
