Basketball at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	Nimibutr Stadium
Date	9–19 December 1978
Nations	14
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Basketball was one of the 20 sports disciplines held in the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. China won their 1st title by beating last edition's finalist South Korea in the championship match. The games were held from December 9 to 20, 1978.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	China Chen Kai He Juhua Huang Pinjie Kuang Lubin Liu Jizeng Mu Tiezhu Wang Deli Wang Zongxing Xing Weining Zhang Mingshu Zhang Weiping	South Korea Cho Myung-soo Choi Bu-young Ha Dong-gi Hwang Yu-ha Kim Dong-kwang Kim Hyung-nyun Lee Chung-hee Lee Moon-kyu Lee Soo-gi Park In-kyu Park Soo-kyo Shin Sun-woo	North Korea An Gwang-gyun Ja Myung-sam Jo Nae-un Kim Jin-geun Kim Mu-myong Kim Myung-jun O Heung-ryong O Tung-sik Ri Eui-chol Ri Geun-gwan Ri Jung-bok So Won-bae
Women details	South Korea Cho Eun-ja Cho Young-ran Choi Seung-hee Chun Kyung-suk Hong He-ran Hong Young-soon Jung Hee-sook Jung Mi-ra Kang Hyun-suk Lee Hyang-ju Park Chan-sook Song Keum-soon	China Fan Guilan Fan Huifang Jiao Li Luo Xuelian Peng Nian Song Xiaobo Sun Ruiyun Yu Aifeng Zhang Lijun Zhang Mingxiang Zhao Aili	Japan Hiromi Amano Keiko Araki Mieko Fukui Setsuko Hashizume Rieko Itani Tomoko Iwasaki Hiroko Nakagawa Chiemi Sato Kazuko Sato Tomoko Shibukawa Kanoko Suzuki Noriko Suzuki

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	4	4	0	427	293	+134	8	Final round
2	Philippines	4	3	1	347	296	+51	7
3	Pakistan	4	2	2	337	323	+14	6	Classification 7th–14th
4	Saudi Arabia	4	1	3	269	313	−44	5
5	Bahrain	4	0	4	221	376	−155	4

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Korea	4	4	0	425	251	+174	8	Final round
2	Japan	4	3	1	415	272	+143	7
3	Malaysia	4	2	2	413	275	+138	6	Classification 7th–14th
4	Hong Kong	4	1	3	325	367	−42	5
5	Qatar	4	0	4	163	576	−413	4

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	315	157	+158	6	Final round
2	Thailand	3	2	1	203	264	−61	5
3	Iraq	3	1	2	206	237	−31	4	Classification 7th–14th
4	Kuwait	3	0	3	179	245	−66	3

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• The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	Malaysia	7	7	0	14
2	Pakistan	7	6	1	13
3	Iraq	7	5	2	12
4	Kuwait	7	4	3	11
5	Hong Kong	7	3	4	10
6	Saudi Arabia	7	2	5	9
7	Bahrain	7	1	6	8
8	Qatar	7	0	7	7

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• The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the final round.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	China	5	5	0	10
2	South Korea	5	4	1	9
3	North Korea	5	3	2	7
4	Japan	5	2	3	7
5	Philippines	5	1	4	6
6	Thailand	5	0	5	5

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Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	7	7	0
	South Korea	8	7	1
	North Korea	8	6	2
4	Japan	8	5	3
5	Philippines	8	4	4
6	Thailand	7	2	5
7	Malaysia	9	7	2
8	Pakistan	9	6	3
9	Iraq	9	5	4
10	Kuwait	9	4	5
11	Hong Kong	9	3	6
12	Saudi Arabia	9	2	7
13	Bahrain	9	1	8
14	Qatar	9	0	9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	South Korea	4	4	0	8
2	China	4	3	1	7
3	Japan	4	2	2	6
4	Thailand	4	1	3	5
5	Malaysia	4	0	4	4

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Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	4	4	0
	China	4	3	1
	Japan	4	2	2
4	Thailand	4	1	3
5	Malaysia	4	0	4

• Men's Results
• Women's Results