Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics
| 13th Olympic Basketball Tournament |
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Barcelona 1992 |
| Tournament details |
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| Olympics |
1992 Summer Olympics |
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| Host nation |
Spain |
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| City |
Barcelona |
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| Duration |
July 26 – August 8 |
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| Men's tournament |
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| Teams |
12 |
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| Women's tournament |
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| Teams |
8 |
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The Basketball games of the 1992 Summer Olympics were played at the Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona. 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams participated in the tournament.
This was the first time that NBA players were eligible to play in Olympic basketball, following a decision of FIBA in 1989. Until 1988, only amateurs and players from professional leagues other than the NBA were allowed to play.
The United States men's team, nicknamed the Dream Team, won the Gold Medal beating Croatia in the final, with Lithuania winning the bronze medal.
The Unified Team, representing the Commonwealth of Independent States of the recently defunct Soviet Union, won the women's tournament, with China as runner-up. The United States women won the bronze medal, after losing to CIS in the semifinal, suffering their third and last defeat to date in Olympic basketball history.
Medal summary
Qualification
An NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. For the men's tournament, the host country qualified automatically, as did the winners of the continental championships held for Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas, plus the runner-up, third and fourth place from the Americas competitions. A special qualifying tournament was held for European teams to allocate four extra berths.[1] For the women's tournament, the top four teams from the 1990 FIBA World Championship and the top four teams from a qualifying tournament held months prior to the competition were given a place in the Olympics.
Men
Women
Format
Men's tournament:
- Two groups of six teams are formed, where the top four from each group advance to the knockout stage.
- Fifth and sixth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 9th through 12th places in the final ranking.
- In the quarterfinals, the pairings are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
- The four teams eliminated from the quarterfinals form an additional bracket to decide 5th through 8th places in the final ranking.
- The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals.
- The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.
Women's tournament:
- Two groups of four teams are formed, where the top two from each group advance to the knockout stage.
- Third and fourth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.
- The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.
Tie-breaking criteria:
- Head to head results
Men's Tournament
Preliminary Round
The top four places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the eight team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. The United States' Dream Team asserted their dominance by advancing to the next round undefeated and winning their five preliminary games by an average margin of almost 46 points. The only teams representing Asia and Africa, China and Angola respectively couldn't advance and ended up competing for ninth place with Venezuela and host nation Spain.
Group A
| | Qualified for the quarterfinals |
Group B
| | Qualified for the quarterfinals |
CIS  |
100–84 |
 China |
| Scoring by half: 55–39, 45–45 |
Classification round
Semifinals
11th place game
9th place game
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
Semifinals 5th−8th
Semifinals
7th place game
5th place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Women's Tournament
Preliminary round
The best two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. The United States and Cuba advanced undefeated through the group phase but couldn't reach the finals and ended up facing each other for the bronze medal instead.
Group A
| | Qualified for the semifinals |
| Team |
W |
L |
PF |
PA |
PD |
Pts |
 Cuba | 3 | 0 | 246 | 230 | +16 | 6 |
| CIS | 2 | 1 | 244 | 222 | +22 | 5 |
 Brazil | 1 | 2 | 237 | 241 | −4 | 4 |
 Italy | 0 | 3 | 190 | 224 | −34 | 3 |
| CIS |
89–91 |
Cuba |
| Scoring by half: 44–44, 45–47 |
| Cuba |
95–88 (OT) |
Brazil |
| Scoring by half: 34–42, 46–38 Overtime: 15–8 |
| CIS |
79–67 |
Italy |
| Scoring by half: 49–37, 30–30 |
| CIS |
76–64 |
Brazil |
| Scoring by half: 48–33, 28–31 |
| Italy |
53–60 |
Cuba |
| Scoring by half: 26–36, 27–24 |
Group B
| | Qualified for the semifinals |
Classification games
Semifinals
Spain  |
92–80 (OT) |
Italy |
| Scoring by half: 37–33, 28–32 Overtime: 13–13, 14–2 |
7th place game
| Brazil |
86–83 (OT) |
Italy |
| Scoring by half: 41–41, 37–37 Overtime: 8–5 |
5th place game
Knockout stage
Semifinals
| Cuba |
70–109 |
China |
| Scoring by half: 30–57, 40–52 |
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final standings
See also
References
External links
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Lithuania
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