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

Thanks for the Memories: Chapel Hill Magazine Readers Remember Dean Smith
Chapel Hill Magazine readers share their remembrances of - and personal photos with - the late, great Dean Smith. (Pages 10-11 of publication)...
Mon Jun 1, 2015

Honoring Bill Guthridge like 'trying to describe a sunset,' former UNC basketball manager says
Dr. Dan Veazey, a Hendersonville native who served as a basketball manager at UNC under coach Dean Smith and longtime assistant Bill Guthridge, was one...
Fri May 29, 2015

Bill Guthridge: Basketball Royalty
He played against Oscar Robertson, recruited Michael Jordan and coached with Dean Smith. That is as close to basketball royalty as anyone could come. As...
Wed May 27, 2015

A trying time for Linda Woods, longtime assistant for UNC coaches Dean Smith, Bill Guthridge
One by one, they came up to Linda Woods on Monday at the reception after Bill Guthridge’s funeral and leaned down to give her a...
Wed May 27, 2015

Carolina basketball family unites for Guthridge
The funeral service for former UNC head basketball coach and longtime Tar Heel assistant Bill Guthridge was held on Mondaty afternoon in Chapel Hill. Guthridge,...
Tue May 26, 2015

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