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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Photos: Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins spend a day on the UNC campus in Oct. 1983In Nov. 1983, Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick wrote a cover story about Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins, who at the time were stars of the...
Thu Aug 10, 2017
See Dean Smith’s handwritten note to a recruitDean Smith was a prodigious letter writer, and since his death in 2015, an increasing number of those letters have been making their way to...
Tue Aug 8, 2017
Art’s Angle: The Mission of Dean Smith
Now that the NCAA has acknowledged it has no jurisdiction over the sanctioned courses offered at its more than 1,000 member institutions, it is time...
Sat Aug 5, 2017
4 recruiting classes have contributed to matching titles for Triangle rivals
1. 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 Summers
31. 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