The USA Basketball women’s national team, featuring Washington Mystics center Tina Charles and guard Ariel Atkins for Team USA will be on at 2:30 p.m. ET. The game will be on NBC Sports Network. The men’s game that was scheduled for 6 p.m. ET against Australia is cancelled as a precautionary measure after Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal and Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant of Team USA were put into coronavirus protocols.
The American women’s team is in a similar predicament as the men in this one respect: they are a collection of talent that will have to get themselves together much more quickly while their European foes do, considering that Women’s EuroBasket was just last month.