Chansky’s Notebook: Kansas Connectivity

Posted Nov 7, 2024
The uncanny Carolina-Kansas connection goes back more than 75 years. When Dean Smith was finishing his Air Force duty after graduating from Kansas and playing for legendary Phog Allen, he served as an assistant coach at the Air Force Academy under Bob Spear, who urged Smith to take an assistant’s job with UNC coach Frank McGuire in 1958. (Chapelboro.com)

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