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

With Four Corners offense, Dean Smith changed basketball
On the 12th of March exactly 40 years ago, these four fingers marked a legacy — of a coach and his game, a leader of...
Tue Feb 10, 2015

Video: Carolina Remembers Coach Dean Smith
In Chapel Hill and beyond, basketball fans - and those who don't follow the game - are reflecting on the life and legacy of Carolina...
Tue Feb 10, 2015

Fan Memories Of Dean Smith: Tuesday
My Dean Smith story... asked him to sign something for my son at a dinner years ago. Told him my son’s name and then started...
Tue Feb 10, 2015

‘We have lost one of the greats’
Dean Smith never sought the spotlight in his time as North Carolina’s basketball coach, but seldom could he escape its searing glow in a long,...
Tue Feb 10, 2015

Coach Dean Smith proved even legends have time for everyone
It was a beautiful paradox: Dean Smith, an uncommon man, dispensing gestures so kind and so voluminous to the common men who adored him, who...
Tue Feb 10, 2015

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