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 American face Brazil at 11:30 a.m. ET on NBC.

• The U.S women's basketball team - defending gold medalists - takes on Angola. (5:15 p.m. ET, 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. (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC)

NBC PRIMETIME (8 p.m.-midnight ET, NBC): Swimming gold-medal finals in men's 200m freestyle and 100m backstroke; women's 100m backstroke and 100m breastroke; the men's gymnastics gold medal will be awarded;

and in men's diving, it's the gold-medal final of the men's synchronized platform diving.

MORE HIGHLIGHTS

Swimming (10-10:30 a.m. ET, NBC): Qualifying heats featured Michael Phelps (200m butterfly), Missy Franklin and Allison Schmitt (200m freestyle)

Archery (12:45 p.m. ET, 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. ET, MSNBC): Gold-medal finals of the men's 62kg and women's 58kg.

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

Boxing (5-8 p.m. ET, CNBC): Rau'shee Warren is set to become the first American boxer to compete in three Olympic Games.