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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Kirschner: A Historical DayIt was Wednesday, October 8, 1997, seven days before the first practice of what was to be Dean Smith's 37th year as head coach. Coach...
Wed Oct 9, 2013
Lucas: Missing Coach SmithSo, sixteen years after he retired, what did Dean Smith teach us? Point to the passer. Seniors first. What to do with a mistake: recognize...
Wed Oct 9, 2013
Dean Smith Retired 16 Years Ago Today
This is one of the "where were you?" moments for Tar Heel fans everywhere. A few months after breaking Adolph Rupp's all-time win mark and...
Wed Oct 9, 2013
Lucas: Green All Over
Dean Smith famously used to calm his teams with the advice that a billion people in China had no idea the game was even being...
Wed Oct 2, 2013
Dean Smith, beyond the Medal of Freedom
Dean Smith recruited UNC's first black scholarship athlete, a basketball player named Charles Scott, who said years later that one thing he liked about Smith...
Thu Sep 12, 2013