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

'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

Q&A: Roy Williams On Dean Smith
In 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 break
The 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

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