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

U.S. Senate Resolution Honors Dean Smith
The U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution (S. Res 79), honoring the life of Dean Smith, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina’s basketball...
Tue Feb 17, 2015

Lucas: UNC Basketball Notebook
Roy Williams said Marcus Paige continues to be bothered by plantar fasciitis. "It probably bothered him more this Sunday than the Sunday after the Boston...
Tue Feb 17, 2015

Lefty Driesell encouraged son to emulate former rival Dean Smith
The late Dean Smith has been remembered this week for what a great coach he was. Lefty Driesell remembers what a great recruiter Smith was...
Tue Feb 17, 2015

Dean Smith: Teacher, innovator and team-builder before the onset of personal branding
I wonder what Dean Smith would have thought of Twitter. Probably not much. His mind ravaged by dementia the last few years of his life,...
Tue Feb 17, 2015

Charlie Scott to be inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
Kansas State’s Rolando Blackman, Quinn Buckner of Indiana, Ohio State’s John Havlicek, Long Beach State’s Ed Ratleff and Charles Scott of North Carolina headline the...
Tue Feb 17, 2015

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