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

Lucas: The Forgotten Champion
Fittingly, this year's Tar Heels face Michigan tonight in the Smith Center—the first meeting between those two programs since they contested the 1993 national championship...
Wed Nov 29, 2017

Roy Williams Tuesday Press Conference Notes
Dean Smith used to sometimes not say anything or much at all to his team in the locker room following a defeat, but Roy Williams...
Tue Nov 28, 2017

How UNC’s long, close relationship with Nike began
In early April, 1993, North Carolina won its third NCAA basketball championship, and second under coach Dean Smith, in its final game wearing Converse-brand sneakers...
Thu Nov 23, 2017

Chansky’s Notebook: Three In The Post
Dean Smith had three freshman centers, Rich Yonakor, Jeff Wolf and Steve Krafcisin, and Smith joked that maybe Yon-Wolf-Sin could combine to equal Tom LaGarde’s...
Wed Nov 22, 2017

David Chadwick has gone from UNC basketball team to pastor to breaking news on his radio show
David Chadwick stands 6-foot-8, was recruited by UNC’s Dean Smith while in high school in Orlando, Fla., and played as a forward for the Tar...
Tue Nov 21, 2017

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