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
France national basketball team had its moments to shine despite some internal struggles and many injuries for key players. At the European meetings, the team did not win a medal despite some good performances. The years 1999 and 2000, however, marked a turnaround for French basketball. The team built around Rigaudeau, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Sciarra, Bilba, Foirest finished in the top 4 at the EuroBasket 1999 in France and only lost the bronze medal final to Yugoslavia (74–62), despite some internal problems that disrupted the group of players. In 2000, team France traveled to the Olympics in Sydney, full of ambition, which developed the means