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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Dean Smith was the king of basketball innovationsBefore 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
Dean Smith treated women sportswriters with respectHelen Ross remembers feeling nervous. As a sportswriter for The Greensboro News & Record in the 1980s, she had been assigned the task of interviewing...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
Video: Powerful Moment of Silence for Dean Smith at UNC-Duke
In a powerful pregame moment, the coaches and players from North Carolina and Duke kneel together at center court of Cameron Indoor Stadium to honor...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
A tribute, then another Cameron Classic
Wednesday night in Durham started with a moment of silence for legendary former North Carolina coach Dean Smith at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but the game...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
Dean Smith was the best, and I was there at the start
Eons before that nuanced New Orleans night; before he became a genius coach and teacher, one of sport's venerated forces of nature, even some kind...
Wed Feb 18, 2015