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

Jacobs: Dean Smith’s lessons still reverberate at UNC
After Kentucky defeated UNC this month, a reporter asked Tar Heels coach Roy Williams how the absence of an injured Wildcats starter had affected top-ranked...
Sun Dec 21, 2014

OSU's Shannon Scott steeped in Carolina blue growing up
The earliest memory Shannon Scott has of the history facing him today was his bedroom motif. "The walls were Carolina blue,” he said. So were...
Sat Dec 20, 2014

Lucas: Gate City
Something happens when the Tar Heels play in the Gate City. The love affair between the city and the team was established sometime during the...
Wed Dec 17, 2014

2,182 Students Turn Their Tassels at UNC Winter Commencement
Family, friends and alumni filled the stands at the Dean Smith Center on Sunday afternoon to see 2,182 students receive their hard-earned degrees at the...
Mon Dec 15, 2014

Dean Smith, Rick Robey and the moment UNC and Kentucky became real rivals
It came in the 1977 NCAA Tournament. There were 22 seconds left in the NCAA East Regional championship game when Dean Smith charged all the...
Sat Dec 13, 2014

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