| | Top level | Event type
Basketball, Men – Play-off Match
| Date | 18 July 1952 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Tennispalatsi, Helsinki | |
| Referee | Vince Farrell |  USA |
| Referee | Vladimir Kostin |  URS |
| Attendance | 483 |
| Pos | Number | Competitors | NOC | Points | 1st-Half Points | 2nd-Half Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Cuba |  CUB | 71 | 42 | 29 | |||
| 7 | Felipe de la Pozas | 13 | – | – | |||||
| 13 | Mario Quintero | 13 | – | – | |||||
| 14 | Fabio Ruiz | 11 | – | – | |||||
| 11 | Carlos Bea | 9 | – | – | |||||
| 15 | Ramón Wiltz | 8 | – | – | |||||
| 5 | Fico López | 7 | – | – | |||||
| 6 | Juan García | 5 | – | – | |||||
| 10 | Casimiro García | 2 | – | – | |||||
| 4 | Alberto Escoto | 1 | – | – | |||||
| 8 | Alfredo Faget | 1 | – | – | |||||
| 12 | Armando Estrada | 1 | – | – | |||||
| 9 | Carlos García-Ordóñez | 0 | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Livio Morales | ||||||||
| 2 | – | Belgium |  BEL | 63 | 34 | 29 | |||
| 6 | Félix Roosemont | 13 | – | – | |||||
| 9 | Henri Coosemans | 10 | – | – | |||||
| 10 | Désiré Ligon | 8 | – | – | |||||
| 8 | Johannes Ducheyne | 7 | – | – | |||||
| 12 | Henri Crick | 6 | – | – | |||||
| 5 | Julien Meuris | 6 | – | – | |||||
| 11 | Alexis Van Gils | 5 | – | – | |||||
| 3 | Jef Eygel | 5 | – | – | |||||
| 4 | Yvan Delsarte | 2 | – | – | |||||
| 14 | Jan Ceulemans | 1 | – | – | |||||
| 13 | Jules Boes | 0 | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Raymond Briot |