U.S. Bounces Back to Beat Greece 77-71
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Lamar Odom made a key defensive play on Greece's Dimitris Pipanikoulaou, preventing him from getting a clean layup attempt that could have cut the United States' lead to two points, and the Americans won 77-71 Tuesday night in the second round of the Olympic men's basketball tournament.
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ATHENS, Greece - Allen Iverson has a broken right thumb but was in the starting lineup anyway Tuesday night against Greece, hoping the U.S. Olympic basketball team could bounce back from an embarrassing loss to Puerto Rico in its opener...
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The unbeaten U.S. women's basketball  team cruised to another victory Wednesday, pummeling Greece  102-72 to advance to the Olympic semifinals where it will meet  Russia.
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The Americans play defense vs. Greece, but outside shooting still suspect going into Aussie game. Allen Iverson, nursing a broken thumb, lead the US with 17 points in a 77-71 victory over Greece yesterday.
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BULLETINBC-OLY--Women's Final BKW,0040BULLETIN    ATHENS, Greece   --  The United States won the gold medal Saturday in women's basketball, beating Australia 74-63.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States has grabbed a 49-44 lead over Lithuania at the half of their bronze medal game at the Olympics.
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And so it has come to this for the United States&#39; men&#39;s basketball team: It is happy with a grind-it-out victory over Greece, a nation that certainly knows pita but not pick and rolls. What did we learn from Tuesday night&#39;s 77-71 victory over our hosts ...
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The U.S. men's basketball team can console itself with two things: third place and the highest point total of the Olympic tournament. The Americans took the bronze-medal game seriously Saturday night and earned some revenge in a 104-96 victory over Lithuania. But that wasn't what they came to Athens for.
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Sick, injured and reeling from a humiliating loss, the United States basketball team struggled past Greece 77-71 in an Olympic preliminary-round game that signaled more difficulties to come.
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Stephon Marbury keyed a fourth quarter run to help the United States beat Spain 102-94 in the quarter-finals of the men&#39;s Olympic basketball tournament on Thursday.
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ATHENS -- They had their moments. There was the inspiring comeback against Greece, which got them not only to the semifinals, but, even better, to the &quot;Today&quot; show set and a live audience with Katie Couric. There was the marked improvement in the standings from the previous meltdowns in Sydney and Atlanta.
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ATHENS : Allen Iverson scored 17 points despite a fractured right thumb and the reeling United States team was pushed to the brink before beating Greece 77-71 in an Olympic preliminary round basketball game.
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Three years after its stunning loss in the Olympics, the United States smothered Puerto Rico in a 117-78 victory in the FIBA Americas tournament.
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Stephon Marbury set a US Olympic record with 31 points, and the team that spent the first week and a half of the Games missing jumpers finally found its range in a 102-94 victory against Spain in the quarter-finals Thursday.
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Stephon Marbury scores 31 points, and the U.S. finally finds its range in a 102-94 victory against Spain in the quarterfinals.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blasted   past Greece 70-47 to win their first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Greece turned a 12-point deficit into a 14-point lead with a stretch of hot shooting and went on to beat the Americans in the semifinals of the world championship.