1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team players, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Shammond Williams, Ademola Okulaja and Makhtar N'Diaye rotated positions in the starting five. !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-Conference Regular Season !colspan=12 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Regular Season !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Tournament !colspan=6 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| NCAA Tournament 1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team The 1997–98 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1997–98 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Bill Guthridge. The team played its home games in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina as
University of Michigan basketball scandal turned up that Martin had given cash payments and other benefits to several Michigan players and Detroit-area high school prospects starting in the early 1980s. As a result of the investigations, in May 1999 a federal grand jury subpoenaed several Michigan basketball players to investigate the relationship between Martin and the basketball program. Former Michigan basketball player Albert White was implicated in early investigations for having accepted US$37,000, but he was not named in later indictments. It was not clear how much of the money White received directly and how much was given to his friends and family to influence