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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

How Dean Smith, Coach K, and Jim Valvano became rivals
Every single day, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski found himself competing against an icon and a rock star. The icon was Dean Smith, who had already...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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