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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UNC's Stretch Run UnderwayThe final three weeks of No. 12 North Carolina’s 2014-15 regular season includes four road trips and a pair of home tilts against rivals N.C...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
UNC to celebrate life of Dean Smith at Smith Center Feb. 22UNC will remember Coach Dean Smith and celebrate his life at a public memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in the Dean E...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Humility helped set Dean Smith apart
Dean Smith had passed away at age 83. It wasn’t a shock –– the coach had been in declining health for years –– though it...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
'Gentleman And Coach' Dean Smith Did What He Believed In
He worried sometimes that he wanted to win too much, but as I said, the man was refreshingly human. He might have given up smoking,...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Blue Devil starts 'Duke For Dean' tribute
Aaron Kirschenfeld, a 2007 Duke graduate currently working on a dual JD and Master's of Information Science at North Carolina, clearly sees both sides of...
Fri Feb 13, 2015