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

Video: Roy Williams, Marcus Paige Post-Arkansas Press Conference
Marcus Paige scored 20 of his game-high 22 points in the 2nd half to lead the Tar Heels to the 87-78 win over Arkansas in...
Sun Mar 22, 2015

Recent wave of sports deaths all too real for Sam Perkins
The calls have become disturbingly normal. Too many times this year, Sam Perkins has answered his phone, learned of a death from his basketball past...
Fri Mar 20, 2015

Tar Heels’ run is fitting this year
Yet here is UNC on the cusp of a championship game that will be played one month and one week since Dean Smith died. The...
Sat Mar 14, 2015

A walk down ACC memory lane with Dean Smith, Jim Valvano, and Mike Krzyzewski (video)
It's a sports-themed 1980s promo from WRAL-TV of Raleigh in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Come for the bad hair and Lee Greenwood wearing...
Fri Mar 13, 2015

Art’s Angle: In The Zone
The absolutely coolest thing occurred at halftime of the UNC-Louisville game when the Coliseum showed a tribute to Dean Smith that most UNC fans have...
Fri Mar 13, 2015

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