Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament explained

Size:	150
City:	Atlanta
Country:	United States
Dates:	July 20 – August 3
Num Teams:	12
Confederations:	5
Venues:	2
Cities:	1
Champion:	USA
Count:	11
Second:	FRY
Third:	LIT
Third-Flagvar:	1988
Fourth:	AUS
Games:	46
Top Scorer:	Oscar Schmidt (27.4 points per game)
Prevseason:	Barcelona 1992
Nextseason:	Sydney 2000

See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The men's tournament of basketball at the 1996 Olympics at Atlanta, United States, began on July 20 and ended on August 4, when the United States defeated FR Yugoslavia 95–69 for the gold medal.

Participants

• • • • • • • • • • • (host)

Format

• Twelve teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 6 teams each. The top 4 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• Fifth and sixth-placed teams from each group are ranked 9th–12th in two additional matches.
• In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
  • The eliminated teams at the quarterfinals are ranked 5th–8th in two additional matches.
• The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals as follows: A3/B2 vs. A1/B4 and A2/B3 vs. A4/B1.
• The winning teams from the semifinals dispute the gold medal. The losing teams dispute the bronze.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results
2. Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Squads

See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5)

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Classification round

Placement Matches (9–12th Place)

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11th–12th

9th–10th

Placement Matches (5–8th Place)

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7th–8th

5th–6th

Semifinals

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Finals

Bronze Medal match

Gold Medal match

Final standings

Rank	width=150px	Team !	width=20px	Pld !	width=20px	W !	width=20px	L !	width=30px	PF !	width=30px	PA !	width=30px	PD
Gold medal game participants
		8	8	0	816	562	+254
		8	7	1	741	578	+163
Bronze medal game participants
		8	5	3	664	560	+104
4th		8	5	3	712	690	+22
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th		8	5	3	674	662	+12
6th		8	3	5	725	757	-32
7th		8	4	4	666	624	+42
8th		8	2	6	581	844	-263
Preliminary round 5-6th placers
9th		7	4	3	535	552	-17
10th		7	2	5	600	619	-19
11th		7	1	6	446	516	-70
12th		7	0	7	562	758	-196

See also

• Women's Tournament

References

• 1996 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive. Accessed December 22, 2016.

External links

• Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's basketball at Sports Reference

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