With an 11-end win over Switzerland in the final round-robin game of the Milan Cortina Olympics on Thursday, the U.S. women’s curling team has set up a rematch with the Swiss on Friday in the semifinals.

Thursday’s win put Team USA in the women’s curling semis for the first time in 24 years. It also helped them bounce back from a defeating loss to Great Britain just one day prior. Team GB stole two points in the 10th end when the U.S. could have clinched the semis a day early.

U.S. skip Tabitha Peterson commended her squad for not letting that loss affect them.

“It's a long, grueling week and we've really come together through the ups and the downs,” Peterson said after Thursday’s win. “The biggest thing I'm proud of is some of the wins we've had after some hard losses. I think we’re capable of anything, and we're going to just carry the momentum into the semifinals.”

Peterson came away with the game-winning shot on Thursday after Switzerland sent the match to extras by scoring three points in the 10th. 

The U.S. had led throughout the game until the Swiss tied it in the 10th. Peterson said she wishes she and the team wouldn’t have let up at the end, but every game is a learning experience.

“We talk about this as a team trying to find the line between going defensive when you're up a certain amount of points and keeping the pedal down, and we kind of went defensive and they got their three,” she said. “Three is better than four, so having hammer in the extra end is a good spot to be in still.”

Even though they had a chance to win in regulation, they played the 11th undeterred.

“I mean, nerves were fine,” Peterson said. “I was throwing pretty well that game so I was just trusting the speed of the ice and my legs and trusting that my teammates would get us there.”

“We had just a couple of half shots in there and let them have an opportunity for the three, but we knew that having the hammer in the extra end, as long as we kept it open for Tabs she was going to make that last shot,” said Team USA’s Cory Thiesse. “I was fully confident that she wasn't missing that shot in the end there.”

Switzerland, which was sitting No. 2 in the standings ahead of Thursday's game, commended the play of the Americans.

“We for sure wanted to win that game,” said Switzerland skip Silvana Tirinzoni. “They played us tough and I just felt like they managed the ice a little better than we did, and we had some draw weight problems. Still, even though we were three down we managed to get to the extra end and had a chance to win, but still it's a loss.”

Tirinzoni said it won’t be difficult to play to the U.S. again so soon after the loss. She actually welcomed the return opponent.

“We’re in the playoffs. It's very nice, we play USA again, and I expect a good game again like today, and that's all the matters right now, actually,” she said. “It would be great if they don’t get ahead too much. We have to be more careful at the beginning of the game to make sure they don't get the lead and they're hopefully we’re fine.”

Peterson, too, said her team has taken every game as a learning experience, and they’ll do the same with Thursday’s. At the end of the day, she knows every team they’ll face from now on will be a formidable opponent.

“We know we're going to have some tough, tough games,” Peterson said. “Obviously we learned a lot with playing on every sheet, playing with the rocks, but playoffs are a new thing. Hopefully we can come out strong and keep fighting for our country.”

“Now it's kind of the start of a new tournament,” Thiesse said. “Just refocusing and taking everything that we've learned all week to get ready for that.”

The U.S. women have never won an Olympic medal in seven prior Olympics.

Switzerland has won just two women’s curling medals, taking home silver at both the 2002 and 2006 Games.

In the other semifinal will be Sweden, the top team in the standings all tournament, and Canada, the two-time defending world champions.

Sweden was the first team to clinch the playoffs with two round-robin games remaining. They went 7-2 through round-robin play.

Anna Hasselborg’s team is the defending bronze medalists. Sweden has won a women’s curling medal in each of the last five Olympics, and six of the last seven.

They’ll take on a Canadian squad that started round-robin play 1-3 but comes to the semifinals after winning each of their last five matches. They clinched the playoffs with a 10-7 win over South Korea on Thursday.

"Just really proud of our team,” said Canada skip Rachel Homan. “Our bigger team than just the five of us, all our support staff here, too. Everybody worked hard to get us to this position. We’re just trying to take it one game at a time and not look too far ahead because that’s all we have in our control."

Homan said she felt like her team was in a single-elimination tournament over the last week after starting the Olympics so poorly. Confidence carried them over the last five games. 

“Just started off a little bit slow,” she added. “We knew our game, we knew our training, we had belief in each other and just tried to stick with the process. It’s hard playing a single-elimination game the entire time, but that’s what the Olympics is… It’s a tough field. Everyone’s gunning for you and you have to bring your best every single time or it’s going to be a loss."

Canada’s women’s curling team won gold at the 2014 Olympics, but hasn’t won a medal since.

Canada and Sweden are tied as the winningest curling countries in Olympic history with 12 medals each.

"It’s everything for Canada. We're fighting hard to bring back the medal for Canada,” Homan said. “It's everyone's dream to be able to do that for your country… It's not something we take lightly, and we've been working hard this week and trying to fight for every inch. We can take a breath and then reset."

Both of Friday’s semifinals will begin at 1:05 p.m. ET. The winners will move on the gold medal game, which will be played on Sunday at 5 a.m.

The losers will play in the bronze medal game on Saturday at 8:05 a.m. ET.