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

Former Topeka mayor to honor Dean Smith with plaque at Topeka High
Former Topeka mayor Bill Bunten is spearheading an effort to place a memorial to his friend, 83-year-old legendary college basketball coach Dean Smith, at Topeka...
Tue Mar 18, 2014

UNC coach Roy Williams weathered the storm
Before January, the last time UNC started 0-3 in the ACC was 1997. Dean Smith led the Tar Heels to the Final Four that season...
Thu Mar 13, 2014

David Thompson, Phil Ford and parity made 1975 an ACC Tournament to remember
Dean Smith told me once he considered “Four Corners” as just part of the game in college basketball’s pre-shot-clock era. But he did admit, when...
Thu Mar 13, 2014

Dean Smith: Precious Memories (video)
Dementia has attacked the memory of legendary coach Dean Smith, but the memories he created will stand the test of time. Gene Wojciechowski takes a...
Thu Mar 13, 2014

The Dean Smith story
At this point I’ll never catch up with all the people who have said nice things in one place or another about my Dean Smith...
Tue Mar 11, 2014

< Back

Next >