MATCH STATS Prior to Monday's Pool B finale at Ariake Arena, site of the women's volleyball tournament at the Tokyo Olympics, Italy's women seemed to have Team USA's number. Sure, the U.S. won a friendly earlier this year, but the Italians had been winning the biggies. Yet none of those matches carried the weight of Monday's, in which the top two teams in Pool B squared off for pool bragging rights heading into the quarterfinals. Italy stepped right up with a first-set victory, and after dropping the second set the Italians won the third in extras (27-25) to put the U.

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