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

First Dean Smith Scholarship Winners Awarded At Topeka (KS) High School
A Topeka High graduate and basketball legend passed away earlier this year, and Tuesday a scholarship was given away to two student athletes in his...
Thu May 14, 2015

Video: A Celebration of Coach Bill Guthridge
During coach Bill Guthridge's retirement press conference on June 30th, 2000 former head coach Dean Smith said that day should be a celebration of Guthridge's...
Thu May 14, 2015

There will never be another Bill Guthridge
Bill Guthridge was not Dean Smith. What made him so valuable to the North Carolina Tar Heels was that he never tried to be. Smith’s...
Thu May 14, 2015

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

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