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

'Play or Go Home'
UNC and Iona played to their seeds after halftime as the Midwest’s top seed turned an eight-point deficit into a 20-point lead. Roy Williams reiterated...
Sat Mar 23, 2019

Sterling Manley Gets His Home Game
It may not have been by design, but Sterling Manley is getting his home game after all. North Carolina has a tradition in which the...
Fri Mar 22, 2019

Stories from the NCAA Tournament: How Not to Miss the UNC Bus
In Dean Smith’s world, being on time actually meant running a few minutes early. Roy Williams adopted that principle, along with many others, early in...
Wed Mar 20, 2019

Lucas: Rapid Reactions - UNC vs. Duke
What a game. That's how Carolina-Duke became Carolina-Duke. The outcome shouldn't be a big surprise. As Dean Smith consistently said, it's very difficult to beat...
Sat Mar 16, 2019

Chansky’s Notebook: Like It Was Yesterday
It happened 50 years and three Charlotte Coliseums ago. The Tar Heels of Dean Smith went to the 1969 ACC tournament at the original Charlotte...
Wed Mar 13, 2019

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