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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ECU's Jeff Lebo takes Dean Smith up on posthumous dinner offerWhen 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 brothersThere 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
Dean Smith welcomed first female manager to basketball family
A lifelong Tar Heels basketball fan, Julie Dalton Loos knew she wanted to be connected to the Carolina basketball program when she arrived in Chapel...
Fri Apr 10, 2015
Everett Case’s gift in 1966 foreshadowed Dean Smith’s in 2015
You probably heard that former North Carolina coach Dean Smith recently left each of his 180 varsity lettermen $200 apiece in his will, asking that...
Wed Apr 8, 2015