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

The Time UNC Shot 79% in an NCAA Tournament Game
Dean Smith had one day to prepare UNC for Loyola after a lackluster opening-round win in the 1988 NCAA Tournament. The result? A scoring record...
Mon Jun 9, 2025

Video: Locked On Tar Heels - David Chadwick Discusses Dean Smith's Leadership Principles
Former UNC basketball player David Chadwick (1968-71) discusses untold stories from his time under Coach Dean Smith, reflections on playing at UNC during the late...
Thu Jun 5, 2025

Chansky’s Notebook: First True International Player
Luka Bogavac is the first true foreign UNC basketball player this century. Dean Smith often signed international players because they would be better teammates than...
Wed Jun 4, 2025

‘Priceless Gems’ from UNC’s History, Now on Display at Wilson Library
You can see and hear all those artifacts – plus a letter written by a University of North Carolina student in 1795, a telescope from...
Fri May 30, 2025

What Happened: UNC Basketball Gets Past NC State During David Thompson Era
Sportswriters were asking if coach Dean Smith needed to change his system to keep up with Norm Sloan and the Wolfpack. The spell finally "broke"...
Thu May 29, 2025

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