A 1996 Collegiate Men's Olympic Basketball Team

Continuing where I started with the 2012 and 1992 teams, brings us to 1996. 1992 would have been a tough year to narrow down players( I think I would up leaving off Rodney Rogers and Harold Miner among others) and 1996 would have been even tougher. The 1996 NBA Draft produced one of the best collection of rookies which meant there were a lot of good players out there.
The coach in my mind would have been Rick Pitino, for his work of turning the Kentucky program back around the 1990s and fresh off a championship in the 1995-96 season with a deep roster of stars, would have been perfect in leading this team.


Starters

• C Tim Duncan (Wake Forest)
• PF/C Marcus Camby (Massachusetts)
• F John Wallace (Syracuse)
• SG/SF Ray Allen (Connecticut)
• PG Allen Iverson (Georgetown) 

Bench

• C Erick Dampier (Mississippi State)
• PF Walter McCarty (Kentucky)
• F Keith Van Horn (Utah)
• F Antoine Walker (Kentucky) 
• SG/SF Kerry Kittles (Villanova)
• G Tony Delk (Kentucky)
• PG Jacque Vaughn (Kansas)  

 I think Pitino would have taken several of his guys with him like I had Coach K do for the 1992 team and like Dean Smith did do for the 1976 Games. But this team would have been talented and been able to play big or small, with talented athletic NBA forwards. This would have been another team to rival that of the fabled 1960 Olympic Team too.
The scary thing is how many didn't make the cut.  Stephon Marbury, Raef LaFrentz, Danny Fortson and Lorenzen Wright off the top of my head.
While I know I load them more heavy with stars  and All-Americans than most college Olympic teams actually had, I think even without the Dream Team and eligibility of professionals, the bigger name guys would have played more. And too, the early to mid 1990s just featured a lot of great players, before Kevin Garnett led the trend of skipping college all together and players were jumping to the pros even earlier.