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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Q&A: Roy Williams On Dean SmithIn July 2011, Tar Heel Monthly published a special Dean Smith commemorative edition. This interview was conducted exclusively for that issue. Roy Williams: "I still...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Dean Smith's success built on extra pass, fast breakThe extra pass. That was the key to everything. The offense depended on it. Carolina basketball wasn’t about the individual but the team. The whole...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Reflections from Dean Smith's last team
North Carolina started off Dean Smith's final season as head coach making a dubious kind of history. During the 1996-97 season, the Tar Heels began...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Steve Hale remembers Dean Smith
All those wins. The 11 Final Four appearances and two national titles. The mastermind behind the revolutionary "four-corner" offense. North Carolina's Dean Smith is a...
Fri Feb 13, 2015
Dean Smith's essence lives in all aspects of Tar Heel life, and will always
On the morning Dean Smith's death was announced, the sun rose and illuminated a rare, unseasonably warm mid-February day filled with cloudless blue skies. Some...
Fri Feb 13, 2015