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, Jerry Tarkanian, and the murkiness of right and wrong in college basketball
In an era where basketball coaches are now reminded early and often that they aren't employed to be spokespeople for their universities on social issues,...
Mon Feb 16, 2015

Short takes on Dean Smith
For a period in the 1990s, Dean Smith pledged to eat healthy foods. He had one weakness, though, and Chris Leevy Johnson, a team manager...
Mon Feb 16, 2015

Dean Smith proved it's really, really hard to win the NCAA tournament
So what does this prove about Dean Smith, the coach? Nothing. All it proves is that winning the NCAA tournament is really, really hard. For...
Mon Feb 16, 2015

One Maryland fan’s letter from Dean Smith
In the days after his death at 83, there were dozens of stories about Dean Smith’s famous letters. Here’s another one, courtesy of a reader...
Mon Feb 16, 2015

On the Fourth Day in Chapel Hill: A Portrait of a Reeling College Town
The nation’s oldest public university lost Dean Smith last Saturday night. Three days later, on Tuesday, three young Muslims were killed in their apartment near...
Mon Feb 16, 2015

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