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RESULTS



FINAL RANKING

# Soviet Union (9-0)
# United States (8-1)
# Cuba (7-2)
# Italy (5-4)
# Yugoslavia (7-2)
# Puerto Rico (6-3)
# Brazil (5-4)
# Czechoslovakia (4-5)
# Australia (5-4)
# Poland (3-6)
# Spain (4-5)
# Federal Republic Of Germany (3-6)
# Philippines (3-6)
# Japan (2-7)
# Senegal (0-8)
# Egypt (0-8)


Tournament Summary


Pool Play: Group A



Pool Play: Group B



Semi–Final



Final



NOTES

The gold medal game between the United States and Soviet Union remains very controversial to this day. With time having apparently expired in the gold medal game, the United States had a 50-49 lead and seemed to have secured yet another gold medal. However, in a very controversial move, it was decided by the game's referees that there were still three seconds left to play, allowing the Soviet Union to have one more chance, which they utilized to make a lay-up, and give the United States its first ever Olympic loss by a 51-50 margin.

The United States team have remained upset of the outcome of the game ever since. They refused to accept the Olympic silver medal during the medal ceremony, and, even as the International Olympic Committee approached them about thirty years later to see if they accepted the medal, they refused.


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