FIBA Basketball World Cup The table provides a chronological list of winners of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. More From Britannica Why Are Basketball Hoops 10 Feet High? FIBA Basketball World Cup year winner runner-up *Known as the FIBA World Championship until 2014. **Olympic championships...
Here you can find tournaments, players, basketball history, rules and more. Everything about this sport around the world including FIBA tournaments, the Olympic competition and the NBA.
Here you can find tournaments, players, basketball history, rules and more. Everything about this sport around the world including FIBA tournaments, the Olympic competition and the NBA.
Due to their rousing accomplishment at EuroBasket 2013, France qualified for the 2014 FIBA World Cup. Although without the services of Tony Parker, other players stepped up to try and fill the void. France was drawn into Group A at the finals, which many viewed as the Group of Death. Thei...
Bonaventure basketball into the national spotlight from 1957-1960. Sam Stith was the catalyst of the defense and was the consummate “complete” player. Quick to steal the ball, he was the ultimate playmaker, team player, and leader. Sam was inducted into the St. Bonaventure Hall of Fame ...
outscoring opponents by an average of 37.6 points. Though the triumph marked the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the U.S. women, it was also a redemption of sorts considering the Americans struggled to bronze at the 2006 World Championships. The eight wins in Beijing pushed the U....
FIBA World Cup2023-09-082 [2]USA vGermany[1] L111-113 FIBA World Cup2023-09-053 [1]Italyv USA[2] W63-100 FIBA World Cup2023-09-032 [2]USA vLithuania[1] L104-110 FIBA World Cup2023-09-011 [1]USA vMontenegro[3] W85-73 ...
(at the time, the Guinness world record in basketball attendance) in Kallimarmaron Stadium. In 1970, AEK reached the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals, where the team was eliminated by JA Vichy, France, in what turned out to be the last year of the first "Golden Era" of the...
Basketball Around the World Though basketball originated in the United States, it has gone on to become a worldwide phenomenon. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA, for Fédération Internationale de Basketball) was founded in 1932 and has hosted the FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1950. ...
In the 1960s and 1970s, Braga began to climb up the league ladder and eventually participated in the UEFA competitions. Braga's recent run of successive European participations began in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup after finishing fifth in the league under Jesualdo Ferreira's first full season in th...