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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Lessons of Dean Smith Compiled in David Chadwick's BookPastor David Chadwick, Senior Pastor of Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, calls Dean Smith a great coach and a better person. He wrote a...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
‘There’s a guy named Dean Smith on the phone and he wants to talk to you …’I remember the date as though it happened just yesterday. Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1996. I was still a young, know-it-all sportswriter working in my second...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
Video: Full footage of UNC-Duke pre-game moment of silence
ESPN's footage of the poignant moment of silence honoring Dean Smith that took place prior to the UNC-Duke game in Durham...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
Legend Dean Smith wasn't above his fans
Over the years, a lot of people wrote letters to Dean Smith, and in a lot of cases, he wrote back. Scott Cherry is the...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
Dean Smith was the king of basketball innovations
Before he was the South Carolina men’s basketball coach from 1981 to 1986, Bill Foster had the misfortune of plying his trade at Duke, a...
Thu Feb 19, 2015