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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One of Dean Smith's top recruiting classes will gather to honor coachFive lifelong friends and their wives will meet in UNC’s Alumni Center for lunch on Wednesday. They could think of no better way to honor...
Tue Jun 9, 2015
Education and social work dear to Dean Smith’s heartDean Smith, the son of public school teachers and the husband of a social worker, knew the importance of the fields of education and social...
Mon Jun 8, 2015
On the bench with Coach Dean Smith
From 1985 to 1987, Coach Dean Smith entrusted Adam Fleishman ’87 ’91 (M.B.A.) to manage Carolina basketball teams that included Tar Heel greats Kenny Smith,...
Thu Jun 4, 2015
UNC basketball road homecoming games: A brief and incomplete history
And so the tradition of the road homecoming game – one that began, like so many others, under Dean Smith – will continue after something...
Thu Jun 4, 2015
Dean Smith's inherent goodness led to his greatness
Dean Smith had an incredible memory. His players and coaching staff all said that, and he used it for much more than maximizing his team’s...
Mon Jun 1, 2015