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
Northern Cement basketball team the 1994 PBA All-Filipino Cup championship and earned the right to represent the country in the upcoming Asian Games, held at Hiroshima, Japan. The national team was composed of the San Miguel players serving as the core of the team and other PBA players (notably Alvin Patrimonio from Purefoods and Johnny Abarrientos from Alaska) and amateur standouts (notably Marlou Aquino from the Philippine Basketball League). The team, led by NCC alumni Allan Caidic and Hector Calma, went on to finished fourth with Caidic finishing as the Asian Games basketball tournament top scorer. Northern Cement basketball team The Northern Cement basketball