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 Smith treated women sportswriters with respect
Helen 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

Art’s Angle: Dean Smith’s Best Coaching Job
Like Roy Williams, whose Tar Heels have won 5 times in 11 trips to Cameron, Dean Smith was always comfortable playing at Duke since notching...
Wed Feb 18, 2015

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