Browning led 1948 USA team to a final record of 8–0, en route to a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics basketball tournament, in London.

Browning first achieved name recognition in the AAU in 1935, when he helped lead the Southern Kansas Stage Lines win the national championship over the McPherson Oil Refiners, 45–26.

Browning joined such players as Joe Fortenberry, Jack Ragland, Chuck Hyatt, and Tom Pickell.

The next two years the team took second in the national tournament, losing to the Denver Safeway Stores both times in the title game.

Browning led the team to a final record of 8–0 en route to a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in London, England.