Dean Smith Basketball News & Bio

Name: Dean Smith Hometown: Emporia, KS High School: Emporia Born: February 28, 1931 Died: February 7, 2015 Notes: Basketball Hall of Fame, 4x NCAA Coach of the Year, 1982 NCAA Championship coach, 879 wins

Chansky’s Notebook: First True International Player
Luka Bogavac is the first true foreign UNC basketball player this century. Dean Smith often signed international players because they would be better teammates than...
Wed Jun 4, 2025

‘Priceless Gems’ from UNC’s History, Now on Display at Wilson Library
You can see and hear all those artifacts – plus a letter written by a University of North Carolina student in 1795, a telescope from...
Fri May 30, 2025

What Happened: UNC Basketball Gets Past NC State During David Thompson Era
Sportswriters were asking if coach Dean Smith needed to change his system to keep up with Norm Sloan and the Wolfpack. The spell finally "broke"...
Thu May 29, 2025

Video: THI Podcast - The Obsession with Keeping UNC Basketball in the Family
One of the magical things to many UNC Basketball fans is that it has been in the family for decades. From Frank McGuire to Dean...
Tue May 20, 2025

UNC basketball's Larry Miller, one of Dean Smith's first star Tar Heels, dies
“Larry Miller was, really, our first major recruit that Duke wanted. They were going so great in the 60s with Vic Bubas in recruiting all...
Wed May 14, 2025

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