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The 2024 roster had won a combined 14 gold medals in major international events. [17] It was the oldest U.S. men's basketball team, averaging 30 years and 9 months when the Games started, surpassing the 1996 team's average of 29 years, 10 months old. [5]
A 20-player roster was announced on June 19, 2024. [7] Andrew Wiggins and Zach Edey withdrew on June 29 and 30 respectively. [8] Oshae Brissett and Kyle Alexander were released on July 3, 2024. [9]
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the US in Olympic play, ranks among the most controversial events in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team won its first eight games in convincing ...
They won the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, becoming the first back-to-back National Champions since Florida (who won the tournament in 2006 and 2007). They were the first team since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 (therefore requiring six victories to win the championship), to win every game by at least 14 points.
Since FIBA changed the World Cup in 2019 to occur a year prior to the Olympics, players were reluctant to play for the national team two years in a row, wanting a break from the long seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). [3] Roster turnover in each tournament often led to lack of chemistry for the U.S. national team, which led ...
An initial 12-man roster was named with a combined 37 NBA All-Star selections, led by Kevin Durant with 11. [3] [26] He entered the 2020 Games ranked second in U.S. men's Olympic basketball history with 311 career points, [27] needing just 25 more to match Carmelo Anthony's record of 336.
The men's basketball program has spent most of its history in the shadow of Alabama's football team, but has risen in stature over the past several decades. The program was notable as a regular conference basketball contender in the 1980s and early 1990s under the direction of coach Wimp Sanderson and in the 1970s under coach C. M. Newton.
Opposing teams were nonetheless overwhelmed by the talent of the American roster, losing by an average of 43.8 points per game. This was the second largest Olympic Games point differential, surpassed only by the 53.5 point per game margin achieved by the 1956 US Men's Basketball Team. The Dream Team was the first to score more than 100 points ...