After a disappointing begin to Olympic group play with an emphatic loss to France, the Canadian girls’s basketball crew has a lot to show on Thursday in opposition to Australia.
A loss was one factor, however dropping by 21 factors in a event the place level differential might make the distinction between heading residence or shifting on was not a great begin. The silver lining for the Canadians was that outdoors of a nightmarish second quarter once they had been outscored 23-2, the rating was even by the opposite three frames.
In the meantime, the Aussies are hoping for a bounce-back of their very own following a shocking loss to Nigeria of their first sport of group play. A 13-point defeat for the No. 3-ranked crew on this planet was not what most had in thoughts, not to mention in opposition to the Twelfth-ranked squad.
That brings us to Thursday the place it’ll be a battle between two determined groups — each Canada and Australia needing a win to regain some management in Group B standings.
Listed here are the important thing moments from the sport.
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Pre-game
• Canada is 3-0 in opposition to Australia at these Olympic video games, with wins in 5×5 males’s basketball, 3×3 girls’s basketball and a shocking upset in girls’s rugby sevens. Will the No. 5-ranked Canadian girls make it 4-0?
