# Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

The following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams that competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

## Group A
### Australia

The following players represented Australia:
* Anatoli Koltuniewicz
* Brian Kerle
* Eddie Palubinskas
* Glenn Marsland
* Ian Watson
* Ken James
* Perry Crosswhite
* Peter Byrne
* Ray Tomlinson
* Richard Duke
* Tom Bender
* Bill Wyatt

### Brazil

The following players represented Brazil:
* Marquinhos
* Adilson
* Mosquito
* Hélio Rubens Garcia
* Zé Geraldo
* José Aparecido
* Dodi
* Luiz Menon
* Radvilas Gorauskas
* Fransergio
* Bira

### Cuba

The following players represented Cuba:
* Juan Domecq
* Ruperto Herrera
* Juan Roca
* Pedro Chappé
* José Miguel Álvarez
* Rafael Cañizares
* Conrado Pérez
* Miguel Calderón
* Tomás Herrera
* Oscar Varona
* Alejandro Urgellés
* Franklin Standard

### Czechoslovakia

The following players represented Czechoslovakia:
* Jan Blažek
* Jan Bobrovský
* Jiří Balaštík
* Jiří Konopásek
* Jiří Pospíšil
* Jiří Růžička
* Jiří Zedníček
* Jiří Zídek
* Kamil Brabenec
* Petr Novický
* Zdeněk Douša
* Zdeněk Kos

### Egypt

The following players represented Egypt:
* Sherif Fouad Aboulkheir
* Ahmed Abdel Hamid El-Saharty
* Awad Abdel Nabi
* Sayed Tewfik El-Sayed
* Adel Ibrahim Ismail
* Fahti Mohamed Kamel
* Mohamed Essam Khaled
* Kamal Kamel Mohammed
* Talaat Guenidi
* Ismail Selim Mohamed
* El-Sayed Abdel Hamid Mobarak

### Japan

The following players represented Japan:
* Atsushi Somatomo
* Hirofumi Numata
* Katsuhiko Sugita
* Kazufumi Sakai
* Kenji Soda
* Kunihiko Yokoyama
* Masatomo Taniguchi
* Mineo Yoshikawa
* Nobuo Chigusa
* Nobuo Hattori
* Satoshi Mori
* Shigeaki Abe

### Spain

The following players represented Spain:
* Carmelo Cabrera
* Cliff Luyk
* Enrique Margall
* Francisco Buscató
* Gonzalo Sagi-Vela
* Jesús Iradier
* Juan Antonio Corbalán
* Luis Santillana
* Miguel Estrada
* Rafael Rullán
* Vicente Ramos
* Wayne Brabender

### United States

The following players represented the United States:
* Kenny Davis
* Doug Collins
* Tom Henderson
* Mike Bantom
* Bobby Jones
* Dwight Jones
* Jim Forbes
* Jim Brewer
* Tommy Burleson
* Tom McMillen
* Kevin Joyce
* Ed Ratleff

## Group B
### Italy

The following players represented Italy:
* Dino Meneghin
* Giorgio Giomo
* Giulio Iellini
* Giuseppe Brumatti
* Ivan Bisson
* Luigi Serafini
* Marino Zanatta
* Massimo Masini
* Mauro Cerioni
* Ottorino Flaborea
* Pierluigi Marzorati
* Renzo Bariviera

### Philippines

The following players represented the Philippines:
* Jun Papa
* Danny Florencio
* Ed Ocampo
* Freddie Webb
* Jimmy Mariano
* Manny Paner
* Marte Samson
* Ciso Bernardo
* Ricardo Cleofas
* Rogelio Melencio
* Rosalio Martirez
* William Adornado

### Poland

The following players represented Poland:
* Andrzej Kasprzak
* Andrzej Seweryn
* Eugeniusz Durejko
* Franciszek Niemiec
* Grzegorz Korcz
* Jan Dolczewski
* Janusz Cegliński
* Mieczysław Łopatka
* Piotr Langosz
* Ryszard Białowąs
* Waldemar Kozak
* Andrzej Pasiorowski

### Puerto Rico

The following players represented Puerto Rico:
* Earl Brown
* Billy Baum
* Héctor Blondet
* Jimmy Thordsen
* Joe Hatton
* Mariano Ortiz
* Neftalí Rivera
* Raymond Dalmau
* Ricky Calzada
* Rubén Rodríguez
* Teo Cruz
* Mickey Coll

### Senegal

The following players represented Senegal:
* Abdourahmane N'Diaye
* Alioune Badara Guèye
* Assane Thiam
* Babacar Seck
* Boubacar Traoré
* Cheikh Amadou Fall
* Joseph Diandy
* Doudas Leydi Camara
* Moustafa Diop
* Papa Malick Diop
* Pierre Martin Sagna
* Sylvestre Lopis

### Soviet Union

The following players represented the Soviet Union:
* Anatoli Polivoda
* Sergei Belov
* Zurab Sakandelidze
* Gennadi Volnov
* Sergei Kovalenko
* Modestas Paulauskas
* Alzhan Zharmukhamedov
* Aleksandr Boloshev
* Ivan Edeshko
* Mikheil Korkia
* Ivan Dvorny
* Alexander Belov

### West Germany

The following players represented West Germany:
* Dieter Kuprella
* Dietrich Keller
* Hans-Jörg Krüger
* Helmut Uhlig
* Holger Geschwindner
* Joachim Linnemann
* Jochen Pollex
* Jürgen Wohlers
* Karl Ampt
* Klaus Weinand
* Norbert Thimm
* Rainer Pethran

### Yugoslavia

The following players represented Yugoslavia:
* Blagoja Georgievski
* Damir Šolman
* Dragan Kapičić
* Dragutin Čermak
* Krešimir Ćosić
* Ljubodrag Simonović
* Milun Marović
* Miroljub Damjanović
* Nikola Plećaš
* Ratomir Tvrdić
* Vinko Jelovac
* Žarko Knežević