| Event: | Basketball – Men's tournament |
| Games: | 2011 |
| Venue: | CODE Dome |
| Dates: | October 26–30 |
| Competitors: | 96 |
| Nations: | 8 |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Prev: | 2007 |
| Next: | 2015 |
The men's tournament of basketball at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico began on October 26 and ended on October 30, when Puerto Rico defeated Mexico 74-72 for the gold medal. All games were held at the CODE Dome. The defending champion was Brazil, who won the title on their home court.[1]
Three teams automatically qualified to compete in this tournament, the hosts Mexico, Canada and the United States. The rest qualified through two regional tournaments.[1]
| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Nation | – | – | 1 | ||
| Automatic Qualification | 2 | | |||
| July 5–12, 2010 |  Santo Domingo | 2 | | ||
| July 26–31, 2010 |  Neiva | 3 | | ||
| TOTAL | 8 | ||||
Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:
See main article: Basketball at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters. At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had 12 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on September 14, 2011, a month before the start of 2011 Pan American Games.[1]
The draw for the tournament was held at the Weightlifting Forum, the venue for the Weightlifting at the games in Guadalajara on June 26 and was conducted by FIBA Americas Technical Director, Mr. Anibal García.[2]
The competing are drawn to each group by couples to secure a balance in the competition. The first team selected randomly in the draw goes to group A and the second to Group B.[2] Mexico as host nation got to choose which team from the first pot it played, Argentina.[3]
Each team is listed with their world ranking before the draw.
| width=25% | Pot 1 | width=25% | Pot 2 | width=25% | Pot 3 | width=25% | Pot 4 |
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All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC−5)[4]
| width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc" | Qualified to the semifinals |
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=60 | Record |
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| 4–1 | |||||
| 3–2 | |||||
| 3–2 | |||||
| 4 | 2–3 | ||||
| 5 | 2–2 | ||||
| 6 | 1–3 | ||||
| 7 | 2–2 | ||||
| 8 | 1–3 |
| Men's tournament | José Juan Barea Carlos Arroyo Filiberto Rivera Carlos Strong Samuel Villegas Miguel "Ali" Berdiel Edwin Ubiles Gabriel Colón Luis Villafañe Renaldo Balkman Manuel Narvaez Daniel Santiago | Paul Stoll Jovan Harris Pedro Meza Christopher Hernandez Adam Parada Michael Strobbe Victor Mariscal Omar Quintero Héctor Hernández Orlando Méndez Lorenzo Real Jesús López | Blake Ahearn Brian Butch Justin Dentmon Jerome Dyson Moses Ehambe Marcus Lewis Leo Lyons Renaldo Major Donald Sloan Greg Stiemsma Curtis Sumpter Lance Thomas |