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A forward, he played college basketball at the University of Missouri. He was a graduate of Dixon High School in Dixon, Missouri. Brown was selected for the 1972 Olympic team, but due to injury did not compete in the games. Brown was selected tenth overall in the 1973 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, and was named to the 1974 NBA All-Rookie Team.
The 1960 United States men's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome, Italy, representing the United States of America.. The USA team, coached by California Golden Bears head coach Pete Newell, dominated the competition, winning its games by an average of 42.4 points per game.
The sixty-eighth annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. [1] The 2005 National Champions were the unranked John Brown University who defeated the 9th ranked Azusa Pacific University by a score of 65 to 55.
John H. Brown Jr. (1891–1963), United States Navy admiral and American football player John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Brown Jr. (Navajo code talker) (1921–2009), American Navajo code talker during World War II
United States beat Finland, 77–51 United States beat Peru, 60–45 United States beat Uruguay, 83–28 United States beat Yugoslavia, 69–61 United States beat Brazil, 86–53 United States beat South Korea, 116–50 United States beat Puerto Rico, 62–42 (semifinals) United States beat Soviet Union, 73–59 (gold-medal game)
The USA Basketball Men's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA and the United States men's national basketball team, is the basketball team representing the United States. It is the most successful men's team in international competition, winning medals in all twenty Olympic tournaments it has entered, including seventeen golds.
The United States and Soviet Union sporting rivalry reached its peak during the Cold War. The U.S. men's team was considered a favorite in the run-up to the 1972 Games. Since the first Olympic basketball tournament at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Americans had not lost a single game, winning seven consecutive gold medals in dominating ...
Mike Krzyzewski returned to coach the United States men's basketball several times after the 1992 Olympics. Sports Illustrated later stated that the Dream Team was "arguably the most dominant squad ever assembled in any sport" and compared it to "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East, Santana at Woodstock."