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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Students pay tribute to Dean SmithThe last time Dean Smith led a Tar Heel basketball team onto the court, most current students weren’t old enough for elementary school. But that...
Mon Feb 9, 2015
Dean Smith: 1931-2015Before discussing his career as one of the three greatest coaches in the history of college basketball, we must deal with one aspect of Dean...
Mon Feb 9, 2015
Learning from Coach Smith
It’s Dean Smith's successful, consistent attention to the “little things” I find astonishing. To treat every single person with respect and dignity and as if...
Mon Feb 9, 2015
Dean Smith’s caring touch, penchant for relationships shines through in death
As Michael Jordan often has done, Phil Ford, the college star in the 1970s who conducted UNC’s famed Four Corners offense and became the No...
Mon Feb 9, 2015
True greatness
Whenever somebody famous dies, writers wax poetic in obituaries about how great a person he or she was. Even in cases when the deceased wasn't...
Mon Feb 9, 2015