When U.S. women's basketball is at its best, can anyone stop it?

Three games down and three games remain for the U.S. women's basketball team in its quest for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal and 10th overall.

As expected, Team USA went undefeated after completing group play on Sunday at the Paris Games. The U.S.

women extended their Olympic win streak to 58 games with victories against Japan (102-76), Belgium (87-74) and Germany (87-68). But the real basketball lies ahead, as the knockout rounds start Wednesday, when Team USA will face Nigeria (3:30 p.m.

ET) in the final quarterfinal of the day. Nigeria has been a Cinderella story of sorts during the Paris Games. The D'Tigress went 2-1 in its group for their first Olympic victories since 2004, with decisions over Australia and Canada, and they became the first African basketball team -- women's or men's -- to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympics.

Team USA is plenty familiar with Nigeria. The squads met in the opener of the Tokyo Games in 2021, with the Americans winning by nine points in what was one of just two games decided by single digits in Team USA's Olympic win streak. They also faced off in February's Olympic qualifying tournament, during which the U.

S. women won comfortably (100-46). Should Team USA advance to the semifinals, it would play the winner of Serbia-Australia.

The Opals have six active WNBA players (Ezi Magbegor, Alanna Smith, Sami Whitcomb, Stephanie Talbot, Kristy Wallace and Jade Melbourne) plus the legendary Lauren Jackson, and they are led by New Y.