RIO OLYMPICS | US women's basketball routs Canada 81-51, clinches Group B

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — There was no question coming into the Olympics that the U.S. women's basketball team could score.

With the offense struggling at points today for the first time, the Americans turned up their defensive effort to dispatch Canada.

Maya Moore scored 12 points and the U.S. clinched the top seed in the group with an 81-51 win over its northern neighbors.

"I think we played really hard today on defense," guard Sue Bird said. "Everyone's been talking about our offense, but it's been our defense that has been the most consistent. Tonight was a good example of that. It wasn't that we couldn't score, but we just weren't scoring at the rate you saw in the first three games. It was our defense that was there for us to rely on."