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Team USA has fallen to No. 9 in the rankings. After 12 years in the top position as Spain rises to No. 2 in the FIBA rankings, the country has risen to No. 2 in the FIBA rankings after 12 years in the top spot. 1
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November 18, 2022
The 16-time Olympic gold medalist United States national basketball team has been crowned atop the FIBA rankings by Spain, a team that has never placed better than second at any Summer Games. On Friday, FIBA, the sport's governing body, updated its rankings, and Spain climbed to the top spot, a sliver ahead of the US. The four-time defending Olympic champions climbed to the top of the charts after winning the FIBA world championship in 2010 and had been on the show since. In 2017, the FIBA's rankings were updated to a model that only takes results from the most recent eight years into account. That means that the United States is no longer reaping the benefits of the 2014 World Cup championship, but that the Olympic gold medals won at Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are now factoring into the rankings. At the 2019 World Cup, the United States came in seventh place.