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

Dean Would Be Smiling: UNC runs Four Corners, rips Tech
Roy Williams held up for fingers, just like Dean Smith, his mentor, used to do when he was coaching the Tar Heels. And then Williams’...
Sat Feb 21, 2015

North Carolina honoring Dean Smith through its play
As much as North Carolina coach Roy Williams shared stories with his current players about the man and coach who was Dean Smith, he’s never...
Sat Feb 21, 2015

Jim Calhoun Remembers Dean Smith: 'Father Figure'
As a a young coach at Northeastern, Jim Calhoun was always looking for the best college basketball minds. In the early 1970s, he made a...
Sat Feb 21, 2015

For UNC’s Bill Guthridge, the memories are fading away
On the day before Dean Smith's funeral, Bill Guthridge, Smith's longtime assistant and friend, tried to put into words the relationship they shared, but he...
Sat Feb 21, 2015

Bouncing Back
With the season nearing an end and many of the team’s goals in serious jeopardy, North Carolina blew Georgia Tech off the Smith Center court...
Sat Feb 21, 2015

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