Monday Olympic TV highlights: Can volleyball coach win another gold with new team?

Four years ago, New Zealander Hugh McCutcheon coached the U.S. men?s volleyball team to a gold medal at the Beijing Games.

McCutcheon has taken a different team to London, where he?s trying to repeat that feat. This time, he?s coaching the U.S. women?s volleyball team, and the Americans are indeed the favorites in London.

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Team USA is ranked No. 1 in the world. They?re coming off a silver medal at the 2011 World Cup, and they won the World Grand Prix earlier this year, going 14-0 en route to the championship ? their third in a row.

However, no U.S. women?s volleyball team has ever won a gold medal at the Olympics. Today the Americans face Brazil at 10:30 a.m. on NBC/Ch. 5.

The U.S women?s basketball team ? defending gold medalists ? takes on Angola (3:15 p.m., NBCSN and NBC basketball channel).

The U.S. women?s water polo team ? winners of three consecutive medals, but never a gold ? takes on Hungary. (1:30 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5).

NBC PRIMETIME ? (7-11 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Swimming gold-medal finals in men?s 200-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke; women?s 100-meter backstroke and 100-meter breastroke; the men?s gymnastics gold medal will be awarded; and in diving, it?s the gold-medal final of the men?s synchronized platform diving.

More highlights

Swimming ? (9 a.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Qualifying heats feature Michael Phelps (200-meter butterfly), Missy Franklin and Allison Schmitt (200-meter freestyle)

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Archery ? (10:45 a.m., NBCSN): Brady Ellison, ranked No. 1 in the world, will attempt to be the first American to medal in an individual event since 1996.

Weightlifting ? (1:30 p.m., MSNBC): Gold-medal finals of the men?s 62kg and women?s 58kg.

Badminton ? (1:45 p.m., MSNBC): Americans Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach match up against a team from Japan.

Boxing ? (3-6 p.m., CNBC): Rau?shee Warren is set to become the first American boxer to compete in three Olympic Games.

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