The India men's national basketball team represents India in international men's basketball. It is controlled by the Basketball Federation of India. Further, India's basketball team won four gold medals and one silver medal at the South Asian Games and is the most successful team in the South Asian region.
India appeared at the international stage for the first time ever at the Asian Games in the edition and the Asian Championships at the Asian Basketball Championship where it started out as moderately competitive. India became a regular at the event and had their most successful tournament in when the team even reached the final four.
Plagued by a lack of popularity and support for basketball at home, at times, India faded into oblivion and only had a handful of successful performances. India finished 12th out of 12 in the Olympics after getting knocked out in the preliminary round by losing all three of their matches and then losing all five of their matches in the Classification round.
While the results did not go India's way one game in particular caught the attention of basketball fans worldwide.
India played against the Australian Team , one of the world's top basketball teams. India, which was made up solely of voluntary basketball players competed against the elite team of Australia for almost the whole game until it finally ceded to the Boomers 75β93 after leading at halftime 41β Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well.
