Team USA basketball has dominated the competition at the Olympics. Basketball was first introduced at the Olympics at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, solely as a demonstration. More than three ...

The United States has dominated basketball at the Games since it became an official Olympic sport in 1936 ... to win multiple gold medals with two (1972 and 1988). Yugoslavia (1980) and Argentina ...

Men's 5x5 basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be the 21st medal-contested ... They lost the gold medal game in 1972 to the Soviet Union, amid some controversy. Since Argentina's shock ...

The first non-American team to win the gold was the Soviet Union, which beat the Americans 51-50 in the 1972 Munich Olympics to hand the U.S. their first silver medal. USA Basketball's dominance ...

"I knew I wasn’t going to make the basketball team at Princeton ... Nonna eventually made the 1972 U.S. Olympic foil team after becoming a finalist in the national championships for both ...

who spent time on the LSU Basketball team. He joins Eddie Palubinskas, who played at LSU from 1972-74, who played in the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Olympics. Palubinskas was the second leading ...

1976, Montreal: U.S. (95–74 win over Yugoslavia); Soviet Union bronze 1972, Munich: Soviet Union (51-50 win over U.S.); Cuba bronze The U.S. men's basketball team experienced its first Olympic ...