Team USA women’s basketball takes on Nigeria in Paris Olympics quarter-finals

The GIST: The 5x5 women’s basketball knockout stage is underway as you read this: The quarter-finals tipped off at 5 a.m. ET and will culminate with seven-time defending gold medalists Team USA vs. Nigeria at 3:30 p.m. ET. Here’s a look at the hoopin’ by the numbers.

79: Belgium’s Emma Meeseman shines in Olympic play, having already scored 79 points in these Games (the most of all players), including a team-high 24-point effort against the USA. Can she help her squad pull off an upset against Spain today at 8:30 a.m. ET?

24: Led by two-time WNBA All-Star Satou Sabally, Team Germany is raining three-pointers, draining 24 treys so far to mark the highest three-point field goal percentage in the field. Watch them let it fly in a can’t-miss 12 p.m. ET matchup with defensive powerhouse France.

58: The Team USA women have won 58 straight Olympic games, a streak dating back to the 1992 Barcelona Games. Dominant doesn’t even begin to cover it.

20.3: That’s how many points red, white, and blue superstars A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart are averaging individually in France, the first duo to do so through the first three games of a single Olympics.

1: Nigeria is the Cinderella story of this tourney, defeating both Australia and Canada in group stage play to become the first African team (women’s or men’s) to make it to the knockout stage.