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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Video: UNC alum honors Dean Smith by painting muralCarolina alum Scott Nurkin is close to completing his mural of Hall of Fame Basketball Coach Dean Smith – which Nurkin began two days after...
Thu Mar 3, 2016
How Dean Smith, Coach K, and Jim Valvano became rivalsEvery single day, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski found himself competing against an icon and a rock star. The icon was Dean Smith, who had already...
Thu Mar 3, 2016
Florida high school coach borrows Dean Smith's delay game to salt away win
Things were slipping away for Bradenton Christian. A 20-point halftime lead was 48-41 less than a minute into the fourth quarter and what once was...
Tue Mar 1, 2016
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