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

Art’s Angle: What Has Changed?
Rashad McCants’ sweeping allegations are hard to believe. Tar Heels under Dean Smith and Roy Williams had their own academic advisor and tutors, from the...
Tue Jun 10, 2014

Forgotten champions from sports history: UNC's not-so-Fab-Five
Quick, name the starters for UNC's 1993 championship over Michigan? Two? How about one? These Tar Heels won the school's third championship, second under Dean...
Tue Jun 3, 2014

Plaque seals Dean Smith's legacy at Topeka High
The timing was purely coincidental, yet it couldn’t have been any better. On the same week that the 60th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Brown...
Thu May 15, 2014

Dante Calabria to coach Montverde prep team
National powerhouse Montverde Academy (Fla.) unveiled plans to introduce a second basketball team late last month. Monday the Eagles announced that former North Carolina Tar...
Mon May 12, 2014

Plaque honoring Topeka High grad Dean Smith dedicated this week
Dean Smith, one of the greatest basketball coaches in the history of the sport and a man who worked his entire life to break down...
Sun May 11, 2014

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