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

Monmouth's King Rice reflects on passing of UNC's Bill Guthridge
When Monmouth head coach King Rice, a UNC standout at point guard from 1987-1991, checked his phone after practice Wednesday morning, he found a wave...
Thu May 14, 2015

Bill Guthridge never sought the spotlight
As Bill Guthridge once said in an interview, “I never particularly liked being in the spotlight.” Guthridge, who died Tuesday night at 77, spent nearly...
Thu May 14, 2015

Roy Williams Endures
What a year it has been for Roy Williams. On Tuesday, former UNC head coach and longtime assistant Bill Guthridge died of heart failure. Guthridge,...
Thu May 14, 2015

Tar Heels mourn loss of another beloved former basketball coach
North Carolina has lost a second treasured men’s basketball coach in relatively short order with the death of Bill Guthridge, the decades-long assistant coach and...
Thu May 14, 2015

Guthridge never sought the spotlight
The voice was a little weak but the eyes were bright and his wit as sharp as ever that May day in 2013. Bill Guthridge...
Thu May 14, 2015

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