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

Joe Brown becomes Burke Sports HOF's newest member
A standing ovation fittingly morphed into claps in time to the beat of “I’m a Tar Heel Born” to culminate Friday’s induction of local basketball...
Sat Apr 21, 2012

Tudor: Job-jumping saga of Larry Brown started at Davidson
By time the 2012-13 basketball season begins, Larry Brown will be 72 years old. Dean Smith, the person most responsible for Brown becoming a coach,...
Thu Apr 19, 2012

Rusty Clark to introduce Joe Brown at Burke Sports HOF induction
Former UNC basketball standout Franklin “Rusty” Clark will introduce his ex-teammate, Valdese native Joe Brown, when Brown is inducted into the Burke County Sports Hall...
Tue Apr 17, 2012

Q&A: James Worthy talks '82 NCAA title game and March Madness
The 30th anniversary of one of college basketball's landmark games has arrived. Three years after Magic Johnson beat Larry Bird, and a year before N.C...
Mon Apr 2, 2012

UNC basketball coaches bond forged from loyalty, triumph
It was the day before North Carolina left for St. Louis, for the NCAA tournament Midwest regional, and Bill Guthridge was in his office at...
Sat Mar 31, 2012

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