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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Video: Full footage of UNC-Duke pre-game moment of silenceESPN'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 fansOver 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
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