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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
Dean Smith

Tennessee basketball schedules home-and-home with North Carolina
All that's left to figure out for the Tennessee and North Carolina men's basketball teams is a date. Tennessee coach Rick Barnes confirmed Tuesday that...

Dante Calabria pays forward basketball knowledge as assistant coach at NAIA school
Dante Calabria wants to be a head coach. The level doesn’t matter. All he wants to do is pass along lessons, the ones he learned...

Q&A with James Worthy
Former Tar Heel, Los Angeles Laker, and Hall of Fame member James Worthy is considered one of the best basketball players of all-time. Prior to...

Video: James Worthy Interview
Former UNC great James Worthy met with the media Friday evening to discuss his career at UNC, the NBA, Dean Smith, Michael Jordan and more...

Dean Smith’s commemorative mural to be ready by end of the month
Chapel Hill artist and UNC graduate Scott Nurkin is on track to finish a mural commemorating legendary UNC basketball coach Dean Smith’s life and career...

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