{"id":115195,"date":"2016-08-04T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=115195"},"modified":"2016-08-26T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:34:49","slug":"uconn-basketball-powerhouse-presence-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/08\/uconn-basketball-powerhouse-presence-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Basketball Powerhouse a Presence in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When on Sunday the <em>New York Times<\/em> crossword puzzle offered the clue \u201cpowerhouse in women\u2019s basketball,\u201d the answer may have seemed like a slam dunk to those with even a passing interest in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>UConn women\u2019s basketball has won 11 NCAA national championships \u2013 the most recent four in consecutive years. \u00a0So the five-letter clue, well, just <em>fit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"grey-sidebar floating-sidebar col-xs-12 col-sm-4\">\n  From Aug. 7 to 14, Team USA will play five games against each of its pool opponents, looking to earn a spot in the quarterfinals on Aug. 16, the semifinals on Aug. 18, and the medal games on Aug. 20.<br \/>\nHere is the full schedule:<br \/>\nAug. 7 vs. Senegal, 11 a.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 8 vs. Spain, 11 a.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 10 vs. Serbia, 2:30 p.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 12 vs. Canada, 2:30 p.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 14 vs. China, 11:15 a.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 16 Women\u2019s Quarterfinals, TBA<br \/>\nAug. 18 Medal Semifinals, TBA<br \/>\nAug. 20 Bronze Medal Game, 10:30 a.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nAug. 20 Gold Medal Game, 2:30 p.m. (EDT)<br \/>\nThe time in Rio is one hour ahead of the time in Connecticut (Eastern Daylight Time). All the times shown above are in Eastern Daylight Time. <\/aside>\n<p>Sports fans hope the heavy UConn presence on the USA Basketball Women&#8217;s National Team will bring its talents to Rio when the team opens Olympic play against Senegal on Sunday, Aug. 7, at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Coached by UConn women\u2019s head coach Geno Auriemma, and with five UConn stars on the 12-member roster, one national headline declared the team \u201chas a decidedly UConn flavor.\u201d Former Huskies Sue Bird, Tina Charles, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, and Breanna Stewart all played for Auriemma.<\/p>\n<p>Bird and Taurasi will be competing in their fourth Olympic games, while Charles and Moore will compete in their second.\u00a0 Stewart, who helped Team USA win gold at the 2014 World Championship, is competing in the Olympics for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. women\u2019s team is going for its sixth straight gold:\u00a0 they have taken home the gold in each of the games since 1996. Addressing the team after practice in Houston on Tuesday, USA Basketball managing director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usab.com\/news-events\/news\/2016\/08\/wnt-heads-to-rio.aspx\">Jerry Colangelo<\/a> said the team &#8220;have a target on their backs.&#8221; Despite the pressure, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usab.com\/news-events\/news\/2016\/08\/woly-press-conf-quotes.aspx\">Auriemma<\/a> told a press conference Tuesday, &#8220;If the look of them has been any indication these last couple of weeks, this team is really, really ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans can watch this Sunday\u2019s game <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.nbcolympics.com\/\">via live stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy UConn presence on the USA Basketball Women&#8217;s National Team will bring its talents to Rio when the team opens Olympic play on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":115210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,88,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-115195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-global-affairs","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 04:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115195"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116134,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195\/revisions\/116134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/115210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115195"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=115195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=115195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}