US cagebelles in record rout

LONDON (AP) – The U.S. women’s basketball team tied their own Olympic scoring record Sunday with a 114-63 rout of China.

Diana Taurasi scored 22 points and the women matched the 114 points they scored against Spain in 1992, but and fell well short of the women’s Olympic mark of 128 points set by Brazil in 2004.

China was able to hang with the U.S. for a quarter behind its own hot shooting before the Americans turned the game into a rout with a huge second quarter run. The victory gave the Americans the top seed in the group for the quarterfinals and they will play Canada on Tuesday.