Beijing 2008 Team USA Basketball vs Australia Betting Odds Preview: The self-proclaimed “Redeem Team” begins its real quest for an Olympic Gold Medal on Wednesday August 29, 2008. With a scheduled tip-off of just after at 8 AM ET, Team USA will be taking on Australia (3-2, 8 pts) in the Beijing 2008 Men’s Olympic Basketball quarterfinals. At SportsBook.com, Team USA Basketball is huge -31 betting odds favorites in their Beijing 2008 Olympics quarterfinal game against Australia (+31).

The Redeem Team is coming off a blowout “meaningless” (106-57) victory over Germany in Monday’s final group game. The United States led 53-29 at the half, as the game eventually got out of hand in USA's favor.

After going 5-0 (in group play), the United States Men’s Basketball team comes in leading group B with 10 points, followed by Spain (4-1, 9 pts), Greece (3-2, 8 pts), China (2-3, 7 pts), Germany (1-4, 6 pts), and Angola (0-5, 5 pts).

Denver Nuggets’ forward, Carmelo Anthony, who was the leading scorer for the disappointing (3rd place) Athens Olympic team said: “It’s finally here, we are knocking on the door. It’s time to get down to business right now. We’ve got three games to accomplish what we’ve been waiting to do for four years.”

These two countries last met in Shanghai on August 5th 2008, during the final exhibition game for Beijing 2008. Although the Aussies were without the services of C Andrew Bogut, they were able to keep the U.S. at bait, loosing a relatively close game (87-76).

Bogut, when asked what it would take to beat Team USA in the quarterfinals in Beijing, he replied: “Shoot 100 percent.” The OVER/UNDER for this Beijing 2008: Team USA Basketball vs Australia Betting Odds Preview is 179 total points.

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