• Source: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

      • 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.
      It was also the last Time until 2020 where 11 slots have available in the Olympics through the FIBA Continental (1 in Africa, 2 in Asia, 3 in America's, 1 in Oceania & 4 in Europe in the allocation slot for the Olympics) and 1 with a Host due to the world champions team USA have direct qualify to the Olympics as host in 1996 Olympics


      Medalists



      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. He had previously played with the Bulls in the 1992 and later that year, for the "Dream Team" at the Barcelona Olympics.


      Qualification


      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.


      = Men

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      = Women

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      Format


      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


      Men's tournament




      = Preliminary round

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      The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.


      Group A




      Group B




      = Knockout stage

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      Women's tournament




      = Preliminary round

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      The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.


      Group A




      Group B




      = Knockout stage

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      Final standings




      References



      1996 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive. Accessed June 25, 2011.
      1996 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive. Accessed June 25, 2011.

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