Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Tournament details
Host country United Kingdom
DatesJuly 29 – August 12
Teams12
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions United States (14th title)
Tournament statistics
Top scorerAustralia Mills (21.2)
Top reboundsChina Yi (10.2)
Top assistsArgentina Prigioni (6.5)
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The men's tournament in basketball at the 2012 Olympic Games in London began on 29 July and ended on 12 August. All preliminary games were held at the Basketball Arena within the Olympic Park, while the knockout matches took place at The O2 Arena (renamed North Greenwich Arena due to IOC's no-commercialisation policy).

Qualification

Main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification
Means of qualification[1] Date Venue Berths Qualified
Host nation 6 July 2005 1  Great Britain
2010 FIBA World Championship 28 August – 12 September 2010  Turkey 1  United States
2011 FIBA Africa Championship 17–28 August 2011  Madagascar 1  Tunisia
2011 FIBA Americas Championship 30 August – 11 September 2011  Argentina 2  Argentina
 Brazil
2011 FIBA Oceania Championship 7–11 September 2011  Australia 1  Australia
2011 FIBA Europe Championship 31 August – 18 September 2011  Lithuania 2  Spain
 France
2011 FIBA Asia Championship 15–25 September 2011  China 1  China
2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2–8 July 2012  Venezuela 3  Lithuania
 Russia
 Nigeria

Squads

Main article: Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Competition format

Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. Each game result merits a corresponding point:

Result Points
Win 2
Loss 1
Loss via default* 1
Loss via forfeiture** 0

*The team has fewer than two players available to play on the court at some point during the game.
**A team cannot put forward at least five players at the start of the game, or its own actions prevent play from being resumed.

In case teams are tied on points, the tiebreaking criteria are used, in order of first application:[2]

  1. Results of the games involving the tied teams (head-to-head records)
  2. Goal average of the games involving the tied teams
  3. Goal average of all of the games played
  4. Points scored
  5. Drawing of lots

The teams with the four best records qualified for the knockout stage, which was a single-elimination tournament. The semifinal winners contested for the gold medal, while the losers played for the bronze medal.

Preliminary round

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout round

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Gold medal match
         
A1 United States 119
B4  Australia 86
A1 United States 109
A3  Argentina 83
B2  Brazil 77
A3  Argentina 82
A1 United States 107
B3  Spain 100
B1  Russia 83
A4  Lithuania 74
B1  Russia 59 Bronze medal match
B3  Spain 67
A2  France 59 A3  Argentina 77
B3  Spain 66 B1  Russia 81

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

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Gold medal match

Statistical leaders

Individual tournament highs

Individual game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points Australia Patrick Mills 39  Great Britain
Rebounds Tunisia Salah Mejri
China Yi Jianlian		 14  Argentina
 Great Britain
Assists Russia Alexey Shved 13  Great Britain
Steals Nigeria Al-Farouq Aminu
Australia David Andersen
France Nando de Colo
Russia Vitaly Fridzon
Argentina Manu Ginóbili
Russia Andrei Kirilenko
United States Chris Paul
China Sun Yue		 4  Tunisia
 Spain
 Nigeria
 Great Britain
 Lithuania
 China
 Lithuania
 Spain
Blocks Tunisia Salah Mejri 7  Argentina
Field goal percentage Russia Timofey Mozgov 88.9% (8/9)  Brazil
3-point field goal percentage Argentina Manu Ginóbili 100% (4/4)  Tunisia
Free throw percentage China Zhu Fangyu 100% (8/8)  Brazil
Turnovers Tunisia Makrem Ben Romdhane
Lithuania Mantas Kalnietis		 7  Nigeria
United States

Team tournament highs

Team game highs

Department Name Total Opponent
Points United States 156  Nigeria
Rebounds United States
 Spain		 56  France
 Australia
Assists United States 41  Nigeria
Steals United States 17  Lithuania
Blocks  Russia 9  Great Britain
Field goal percentage United States 71.1% (59/83)  Nigeria
3-point field goal percentage United States 63% (29/46)  Nigeria
Free throw percentage  France 100.0% (10/10)  Tunisia
Turnovers  Nigeria 25 United States

ESPN All-Olympics Teams

Pos. First Team Second Team
G Argentina Manu Ginobili Australia Patty Mills
G United States LeBron James Brazil Marcelinho Huertas
F Russia Andrei Kirilenko Australia Joe Ingles
F United States Kevin Durant United States Carmelo Anthony
C Spain Pau Gasol Argentina Luis Scola

Honorable Mentions:[3]

Argentina Carlos Delfino
Brazil Leandro Barbosa
China Yi Jianlian
France Nicolas Batum
France Boris Diaw
United Kingdom Joel Freeland
Russia Alexey Shved
Spain Marc Gasol
United States Chris Paul
United States Kevin Love

Final standings

Rankings are determined by:

  • 1st–4th
    • Results of gold and bronze medal games.
  • 5th–8th:
    • Win-loss record in the preliminary round group
    • Standings in the preliminary round group (i.e. Group A's #3 is ranked higher than Group B's #4.)
    • Goal average in the preliminary round group
  • 9th–10th and 11th–12th:
    • 5th placers in the preliminary round groups are classified 9th–10th; 6th placers classified *11th–12th
    • Win-loss record in the preliminary round group
    • Goal average in the preliminary round group
Rank Team Pld W L PF PA PD Standing GAvg New rank
Gold medal game participants
1st place, gold medalist(s) United States 8 8 0 924 667 +257 1 (Steady)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain 8 5 3 647 619 +28 2 (Steady)
Bronze medal game participants
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Russia 8 6 2 623 577 +46 6 (Increase5)
4th  Argentina 8 4 4 690 691 −1 3 (Steady)
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th  Brazil 6 4 2 479 431 +48 B–2nd 1.152 9 (Increase4)
6th  France 6 4 2 435 444 −9 A–2nd 0.995 8 (Increase4)
7th  Australia 6 3 3 496 492 +4 B–4th 1.099 10 (Decrease1)
8th  Lithuania 6 2 4 469 482 −13 A–4th 0.990 5 (Steady)
Preliminary round 5th placers
9th  Great Britain 5 1 4 380 405 −25 0.938 23 (Increase20)
10th  Nigeria 5 1 4 338 456 −118 0.741 17 (Increase4)
Preliminary round 6th placers
11th  Tunisia 5 0 5 320 411 −91 0.779 22 (Increase10)
12th  China 5 0 5 313 439 −126 0.713 11 (Decrease1)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad" (PDF). IBF. May 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "FIBA's Official Basketball Rules 2012-p.68" (PDF). FIBA.com. 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  3. ^ http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/49130/the-all-olympics-team

External links

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