1998 NCAA Tournament 5

The other day after they were more rested and relaxed, Coach Guthridge prepared the interview for the players, the hotel allowed them to use a special place in the hotel prepared for the press and the reporters went there.

The deal was with four sports media that accepted Coach Guthridge's conditions, which had many questions forbidden, reporters from ESPN, TNT, CBS and Sports Illustrated were allowed.

Many questions were forbidden such as talking about whether players would go to the NBA draft or continue playing at the university, Coach Guthridge thought that this could be misused by the media to disrupt the relationship between players and fans.

So the reporters would stay in the hotel's press room and the players would enter individually and so the reporters could ask several questions to the players individually, all the players would go and the reporters would ask the questions if they wanted to.