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MEDAL TABLE



RESULTS



EVENTS



Men's basketball



Final ranking


# United States
# Soviet Union
# Brazil
# Puerto Rico
# Italy
# Poland
# Yugoslavia
# Uruguay
# Australia
# Japan
# Finland
# Mexico
# Hungary
# Canada
# Peru
# Korea


Preliminary round


The preliminary round was conducted by breaking the 16 teams into two groups of 8 each. The groups then played a Round-robin Tournament with each team playing the other 7 teams in the group once. 2 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a loss. Standings ties were broken by head-to-head results.


=Group A



=Group B



Semifinals


The top two teams in each of the groups played in the 1st-4th semifinals, with the winner of each group playing the second-place team in the other group. The third and fourth team in each group played in the 5th-8th semifinals, fifth- and sixth-place teams in the 9th-12th semifinals, and the last two teams in each group played the 13th-16th semifinals.


Finals


The winners of each pair of semifinals played each other in the final for the upper two places of the semifinal, the losers playing each other for the lower two places.