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

Former Tar Heel great Phil Ford reflects on Dean Smith
Former UNC basketball great Phil Ford continues to heed the words of the late coach Dean Smith. And that’s why the three-time All-American and Olympic...
Fri Apr 17, 2015

Marcus Paige Earns MVP Honors At Team Awards Ceremony
Tar Heel guard Marcus Paige earned his second consecutive Dean Smith Most Valuable Player Award and was named co-captain for the second time in as...
Thu Apr 16, 2015

ECU's Jeff Lebo takes Dean Smith up on posthumous dinner offer
When people reel off names of players coached by Dean Smith, Jeff Lebo probably isn’t high on the list. Smith had a major impact on...
Wed Apr 15, 2015

Reforming college hoops with baby-blues brothers
There must be something to all of the talk about the North Carolina basketball brotherhood, because the NCAA at anytime could decide to keep the...
Tue Apr 14, 2015

The Coach and the Kid
Dean Smith, who died Feb. 7, was a great coach, no doubt about it, but on that day he was so much more than a...
Mon Apr 13, 2015

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