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

Preview & Prediction: #7 UNC vs Syracuse
It's Senior Night. Six Tar Heels will run out of the home tunnel at the Dean Smith Center tonight for the last time in their...
Mon Feb 29, 2016

On what would have been Dean Smith's 85th birthday, look back at some of our coverage
Today would have been North Carolina basketball coaching great Dean Smith's 85th birthday. Smith died Feb. 7, 2015. Smith coached the Tar Heels from 1961-97...
Sun Feb 28, 2016

Jacobs: Roy Williams sticks to the Dean Smith way
When post player Kennedy Meeks was sidelined by a bruised knee a month into the season, someone in the Smith Center press room wondered aloud...
Sun Feb 28, 2016

Roy Williams takes blame for not calling timeout late in loss to Duke
North Carolina coach Roy Williams said he apologized to his team for not calling a timeout in the closing seconds of the Tar Heels' 74-73...
Thu Feb 18, 2016

Jerry Stackhouse on choosing UNC: Dean Smith was hard to turn down
Former NBA and college basketball star Jerry Stackhouse joined SI’s Ted Keith on this week’s SI Vault Podcast and discussed his decision to attend UNC...
Mon Feb 15, 2016

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