The 1997–98 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team represented the University of Richmond in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball during the 1997–98 season.
Richmond competed as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under first-year head basketball coach John Beilein and played its home games at the Robins Center.
Richmond finished third in the CAA regular-season standings with a 12–4 conference record, and won the CAA tournament to earn an automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA tournament.
In the opening round, the Spiders defeated the seventh-ranked, No.
3 seed South Carolina, 62–61,[1] at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. Richmond lost in the second round to No.