Len Stevens remembers facing Dean Smith

Posted Dec 27, 2007

When the University of Nevada plays UNC today in Chapel Hill, one person watching the game on television will be Len Stevens, former Wolf Pack coach. Steven's Wolf Pack played North Carolina at Lawlor Events Center on Dec. 30, 1987, and then returned to Chapel Hill the following season for a Feb. 21, 1989, game. "I knew Dean Smith because we both traveled with Converse," Stevens said. "Every summer Converse would take coaches on trips." (Nevada Appeal)

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