International basketball tournament
Basketball contests at the 1996 Olympic Games was the fourteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event . It held from July 20 to August 4, 1996. Games took place in the Morehouse College Gymnasium and in the Georgia Dome .
With the U.S. men's team winning the gold medal, Scottie Pippen would become the first person to win an NBA championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year twice, after having played for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals .[ 1] He had previously played with the Bulls in the 1992 and later that year, for the "Dream Team" at the Barcelona Olympics .
An NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. The reigning world champions and the host country qualify automatically, as do the winners of the five continental championships, plus the runner-up and third place from the Americas, the runner-up from Asia and the second through fourth places from the Europe tournament. For the women's tournament, the extra teams consisted of the runner-up from the Americas, in addition to the second and third places from Asia and Europe.
Twelve teams are split into two preliminary round groups of six teams each.
The top four teams from both groups qualify for the knockout stage.
Fifth and sixth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 9th–12th places in the final ranking.
In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
The four eliminated from the quarterfinals form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.
The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals as follows: A1/B4 vs. A3/B2 and A2/B3 vs. A4/B1.
The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.
Tie-breaking criteria:
Head to head results
Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group
1996 men's teams.
The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Qualified for the quarterfinals
Qualified for the quarterfinals
1996 women's teams.
The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Qualified for the quarterfinals
Team
W
L
PF
PA
PD
Pts
Brazil
5
0
424
360
+64
10
Russia
4
1
378
342
+36
9
Italy
3
2
330
309
+21
8
Japan
2
3
365
396
−31
7
China
1
4
347
378
−31
6
Canada
0
5
293
352
−59
5
Qualified for the quarterfinals
^ Smith, Sam (August 4, 1996). "DREAM TEAM WITH GOLD MEDAL". Chicago Tribune . p. 1.
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