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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Is it time for UNC to address the elephant in the arena?When it opened in 1986, the Dean Smith Center was a new gold standard for college basketball venues. Fast forward 30 years, however, and UNC...
Wed Dec 7, 2016
Toys For Tots At UNC-Tennessee Basketball GameCarolina fans, this holiday season you can help provide toys to over 5,000 Orange County children who would go without any gifts if not for...
Mon Dec 5, 2016
How Dean Smith's Push For Civil Rights Transformed Chapel Hill
Dean Smith is known as a legendary basketball coach at UNC. His teams won 879 games and two NCAA national championships. But one of Smith's...
Wed Nov 30, 2016
Q&A with ex-UNC star Brad Daugherty: Michael Jordan never played it safe
What’s the most important thing you learned from Dean Smith? Brad Daugherty: The biggest thing is humility. Basketball was important, but he used it as...
Tue Nov 29, 2016
How Charlie Scott chose UNC and became the Tar Heels' first black scholarship athlete
When word got around that Lefty Driesell had a black recruit all lined up at Davidson, the rest of the college basketball world, at least...
Sat Nov 26, 2016