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

Roy Williams never imagined topping Dean Smith’s legacy
Roy Williams never dreamed this could happen. Back in 1982, as an assistant under legendary coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina, Williams...
Thu May 11, 2017

Lucas: Year One
During summer workouts with the Utah Jazz, Marcus Paige was approached by Utah assistant Tony Lang, who played at Duke. Lang frequently talked about how...
Fri May 5, 2017

Awards Handed Out At UNC's Annual Basketball Banquet
Justin Jackson, the 18th consensus first-team All-America in UNC history, and the third Tar Heel to win ACC Player of the Year and win an...
Wed Apr 19, 2017

Third national title defines, rather than validates Roy Williams' legacy
Roy Williams is an emotional man to begin with. But just mention the name of his mentor and coaching inspiration Dean Smith and his eyes...
Fri Apr 14, 2017

Tar Heels produced notebook, not textbook, basketball
The last two wins were seat-of-the-pants game plans by the coach who still has the notebooks from his days of watching Dean Smith run practices...
Fri Apr 7, 2017

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