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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‘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 everyoneIt 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
Roy Williams Radio Show Quotes
Can you take us through the whirlwind that you’ve been through since learning of Dean Smith’s passing? Roy Williams: "I thought I was prepared for...
Tue Feb 10, 2015
Dean Smith was about "doing the right thing"
Four years after Greensboro's sit-ins, UNC basketball coach Dean Smith walked into The Pines, a Chapel Hill restaurant. He hadn't become the Dean Smith yet,...
Tue Feb 10, 2015
Another Side Of Dean Smith
Nelvin Cooper once told me a pretty cool story about Dean Smith. I was a younger reporter finding my way around UNC and the other...
Tue Feb 10, 2015