The below article is courtesy of NBA.com and David Aldridge’s Morning Tip

The plan was not to write about the U.S. women again, because what could you really say that hasn’t already been said?

They won their sixth straight Olympic gold medal Saturday, taking apart Spain 101-72, with 11 of the 12 players on the roster scoring. Spain is the third-ranked team in the world.

That came after the U.S. team beat France by 19 in the semis. France is the fourth-ranked team in the world.

The only reason the U.S. team didn’t dispatch Australia, the second-ranked team in the world, was because the Aussies, unbeaten in Group A while the Americans went unbeaten in Group B, lost to Serbia in the quarterfinals. (The U.S. women had throttled Australia in a pre-Olympic exhibition, to boot.) They averaged 109 points per game, and won by an average of 37.3 points per game.

So that’s 49 straight Olympic wins for the U.S. team, dating back to a semifinal loss to the Unified Team in Barcelona in 1992, six straight Olympics and four of the last five World Cups/World Championships, a streak of 89-1 for the senior team the last 20 years. The one loss was a 75-68 semifinals loss to Russia in the 2006 World Championships. They are 66-3 in the Olympics since women’s basketball was introduced as a sport in the Summer Games in 1976. Coach Geno Auriemma is now 31-0 in the Olympics and World Cup since taking over in 2009.

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