The women’s basketball quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics will begin this Wednesday, Aug. 7, when Serbia (Group A) takes on Australia (Group C) at 5:00 a.m. ET. Shortly thereafter, Spain (Group A) will play Belgium (Group C) at 8:30 a.m. ET. Both quarterfinal games will be streamed live via NBC Peacock.
The Olympic quarterfinals begin after a brief group (or “pool”) phase in which each team played its respective group opponents once. Team records in the pool phase determine quarterfinal seeding; of the 12 teams participating in the pool phase, eight advance to the quarterfinals, with the quarterfinal draw emphasizing that each team will play an opponent they had not already faced in pool play, according to the FIBA competition system. Given that each team only plays three games apiece in the pool phase, their records (and thus, quarterfinal seeding) may not be entirely indicative of their level of talent.
Additionally, the quarterfinals are single-elimination games, meaning that the winning teams advance to the semifinals while the losing teams are done for the rest of the Olympics. As with the rest of the Olympics as a whole, teams must bring their best, and there’s no margin for error in front of their worldwide audience.
Serbia vs. Australia
5:00 a.m. ET;…
