 At the same time, the Soviet team was winning easily as well, and the final game pitted two teams each with 6–0 records.The Soviet team, having lost only once at home, wanted to show that the Goodwill games setback was a fluke.The USA team started by scoring the first eight points, and raced to a 45–23 lead, although the Soviets fought back and reduced the halftime margin to 13.