Top ACC stories of 2015: No. 1, The Dean of coaches bids farewell
Posted Jan 1, 2016
No embellishment was needed in the case of Dean Smith, who died at the age of 89 on Feb. 7, just a few weeks shy of his 84th birthday. The legendary North Carolina basketball coach really was a great man. And not because he won 879 games during his tenure with the Tar Heels — the most of any college coach in history at the time of his retirement in 1997.
(Wilmington Star News)
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