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

Humility, attention to detail marked Dean Smith's career, life
As the final seconds of his milestone victory melted away, the capacity crowd rose and chanted his name. Dean Smith was about to become major...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Dean Smith’s Innovations Included an Early Zeal for Statistical Analysis
For decades, Coach Dean Smith would tell his players how many points they had scored and had allowed per possession. In the 1960s, he began...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Dean Smith service Thursday, with public memorial Feb. 22 at Smith Center
The University of North Carolina will celebrate the life of Coach Dean Smith during a public memorial service at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 22, in...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Jeff Lebo remembers mentor
When Jeff Lebo saw that Roy Williams was calling, he knew the North Carolina coach was not ringing him up to deliver good news. After...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

What Dean Smith Meant to Me
I never actually met Dean Smith. A miscommunicated word likely kept me from being a basketball manager and thus part of the UNC basketball family...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

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