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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Willie Cooper's story as UNC's first black basketball player began in Elm CityThe story of Willie Cooper Jr. neither begins nor ends with him becoming the first black basketball player at the University of North Carolina at...
Fri Feb 27, 2015
Tar Heels’ basketball fading as ACC, national power?This is Blue Heaven, where Dean Smith built a program of unparalleled success that went 37 consecutive years without finishing outside the ACC’s top three,...
Fri Feb 27, 2015
A conversation with Brad Daugherty
Born in Black Mountain, NC, Brad Daugherty rose to basketball stardom at UNC and in the NBA. Since 1994, he has covered both basketball and...
Fri Feb 27, 2015
Black History Retold: Charlie Scott Becomes UNC’s First African-American Scholarship Hoops Player
When legendary University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith wanted his basketball team to get better back in the early 1960’s, he decided to open...
Thu Feb 26, 2015
Turner's Take: Go Out and Do Something
Go out and do something. Dean Smith did more than coach winning basketball, he did something with his life. As a college basketball coach, Smith...
Wed Feb 25, 2015