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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Roy Williams' suggestion to Dean Smith -- and it workedRoy Williams remembers his first Final Four trip with UNC, and coach Dean Smith's "whole philosophy was to keep everybody away." That was 1981, Williams'...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Art’s Angle: Back-To-BackCarolina’s appearance here marks the 14th time that one Triangle Area college team has followed another to the Final Four the next year. Fourteen times...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Lucas: The Rule Of Three
No one knows exactly when he first said it. But he most definitely said it. At some point during Dean Smith’s Hall of Fame career,...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Roy Williams Offers Advice for the Ages
On the left side of Roy Williams’s office desk is a drawer full of random pieces of paper, a notebook or two and an old...
Thu Mar 31, 2016
March 29, 1982: Dean Smith Wins 1st National Basketball Championship
On March 29, 1982, Dean Smith won his first NCAA national championship with the Tar Heels men’s basketball team. The Tar Heels won 63-62 over...
Wed Mar 30, 2016