Spain overtakes USA for No. 1 men's hoops team

For the archetypal clip successful 12 years, USA Basketball is not atop the satellite men's rankings.

FIBA, the sport's governing body, updated its rankings Friday, and Spain moved into the apical spot, a sliver up of the U.S.

The four-time defending Olympic champion Americans moved into the apical spot aft winning the FIBA satellite title successful 2010 and had been determination since.

"It's not precisely a caller rubric and it astir apt can't beryllium maintained for excessively long, but it's thing truthful unique, prestigious and historical that I consciousness tremendously arrogant of everyone who ... person contributed to it," Spain manager Sergio Scariolo tweeted Friday.

FIBA's rankings were changed successful 2017 to a strategy that takes results from the astir caller 8 years into account. That means the U.S. is nary longer reaping the benefits of the 2014 World Cup rubric but is inactive seeing the Olympic golden medals won astatine Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo factoring into the rankings. The U.S. finished seventh astatine the 2019 World Cup.

Spain won the past World Cup, positive the EuroBasket rubric earlier this year. The EuroBasket triumph was Spain's 4th successful its past six appearances astatine the continental championship, each of those wins coming nether Scariolo.

Spain is conscionable 1.1 points up of the U.S. men now, starring 758.6 to 757.5.

The adjacent 10 spots successful the satellite rankings were unchanged. Australia is third, Argentina -- which was No. 1 earlier the U.S. took that spot successful 2010 -- is fourth, followed by France, Serbia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Greece, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic.

The U.S. is inactive ranked No. 1 successful women's hoops by a astir 200-point borderline implicit China. The Americans rolled to golden astatine the women's World Cup this year, further cementing their spot atop the list.

USA Basketball besides holds comfy leads atop the worldwide boys' and girls' rankings.

FIBA's astir caller rankings see the men's nationalist teams from 164 countries and 118 women's nationalist teams.