India national basketball team 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 75-93 after leading at halftime 41-37. Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well. Ajmer Singh gained worldwide
East Germany national basketball team the SED banned its basketball players from traveling to non-socialist countries and immensely limited the sponsorship and promotion of talents. Soon, this meant the end of East German international basketball success, which ceded completely after 1973. East Germany national basketball team East Germany's national basketball team represented the German Democratic Republic between 1955 and 1973. Its biggest success was at the EuroBasket 1963 in Wrocław when it finished 6th out of 16. After the Second World War, only one German national basketball team existed. At the EuroBasket 1953, a unified German team competed with four East German players and finished