Tar Heels mourn loss of another beloved former basketball coach
Posted May 14, 2015
North Carolina has lost a second treasured men’s basketball coach in relatively short order with the death of Bill Guthridge, the decades-long assistant coach and wingman to the legendary Dean Smith. Guthridge, who later succeeded Smith as the Tar Heels’ head coach, died Tuesday night at the age of 77, a little more than three months after Smith’s death Feb. 7.
(Burlington Times-News)
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