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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Dear Coach Smith“The most important reason for all the success of Carolina basketball, and nothing else is close, is Dean Smith: what he stood for, the way...
Wed Feb 27, 2013
Dean Smith By The NumbersDean Smith will be 82 on Thursday, which is February 28 and a neat juxtaposition of numbers wouldn’t you say?
Wait, there is more irony...
Tue Feb 26, 2013
Mike O'Koren: ACC Legends Class 2013
Looking back, what are the main things you took away from playing for Dean Smith? Mike O'Koren: "You learned to be unselfish, you learned to...
Tue Feb 26, 2013
Marcus Paige, Tar Heels earn payback
The chant inside the Dean Smith Center on Saturday sounded familiar to N.C. State. The timing was off just a little bit. In the Wolfpack’s...
Sat Feb 23, 2013
Be sure to give Dean Smith some credit for Jordan’s success
“Tex Winter always credited Dean Smith because Jordan first played in a tightly run system at North Carolina,” Lazenby told ProBasketballTalk. “If he hadn’t done...
Sat Feb 16, 2013