Preliminary Round (Group B), 1959 FIBA World Cup

January 16, 1959 · Temuco, Chile

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Preliminary Round (Group B), 1959 FIBA World Cup: Soviet Union 102–72 Mexico, at Temuco, Chile on January 16, 1959.

City is single-sourced (basquetplus.com's tournament retrospective, matching this site's existing published account of the five host cities) rather than independently confirmed across multiple sources, unlike this game's date/teams/score, which are cross-checked against two independent results archives.

Top performers

Soviet Union — top performers
Player	PTS	REB	AST
Viktor Zubkov	13	-	-

No individual player stats were located for Mexico in this game.

Sources

landofbasketball.com — 1959 Basketball World Cup schedule & results
UniversoBasquet.com — 1959 World Championship results

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

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