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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Dean Smith, Charlie Scott turned page for ACC to thriveEverett Case at North Carolina State University gave birth to what would become the phenomenon of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball in the 1950s, but it...
Thu Feb 12, 2015
How Dean Smith changed Bob McAdoo's lifeDean Smith was there that sad day in 1979, at the funeral for Bob McAdoo’s father. Smith was there again in 1991, right around Christmas,...
Thu Feb 12, 2015
The Relentless Scrimmage In Dean Smith
This piece originally appeared in the March 1982 issue of Inside Sports: (Dean Smith) once devoured the works of theologians Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich...
Thu Feb 12, 2015
David Chadwick on Dean Smith: ‘To him, it was always about the team being first.’
David Chadwick, player for Smith at UNC from 1968 to 71, senior pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte since 1980 and the author of...
Thu Feb 12, 2015
Dean Smith always wanted his accomplishments to be about someone else
I remember Dean Smith’s handshake. I was a kid, maybe 10 in the mid-1960s, when I met Smith for the first time after a North...
Thu Feb 12, 2015