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 |
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4 recruiting classes have contributed to matching titles for Triangle rivals1. Class of 1990 Eric Montross, Derrick Phelps, Brian Reese, Clifford Rozier, Pat Sullivan and Kevin Salvadori made up coach Dean Smith’s top-ranked recruiting haul...
Fri Jul 21, 2017
U.S. States with the Worst Summers31. North Carolina is lovely during almost the entire year, thanks to the Appalachian Mountains blocking the gross chubby weather of the Midwest from corrupting...
Tue Jul 4, 2017
Three Things: A Letter From Coach Smith
The letter, now 34 years old, hangs in the Carolina Basketball Museum. There are typos and handwritten notes, and Dean Smith didn’t sign it—all indications...
Mon Jun 5, 2017
Inside the playbook: UNC basketball and the vaunted secondary break
The secondary break is more a philosophy than it is a play type for UNC basketball. It may not (yet) have a Chapel Hill-based restaurant...
Sun Jun 4, 2017
Video: Michael Jordan UNC Highlights Narrated by Dean Smith
Watch some of Michael Jordan's best plays during his 1983-1984 National Player of the Year season at North Carolina. Dean Smith and Woody Durham narrate...
Fri Jun 2, 2017