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

Always a Tar Heel, Rice has happy homecoming
The mind of University of North Carolina head coach Roy Williams is a little foggy after so many years and so many players. He’s pretty...
Sun Jan 1, 2012

UNC-Monmouth: Postgame Quotes & Audio
On the UNC coaching tree: "It was started by Coach [Frank] McGuire and Coach [Dean] Smith enhanced it in every area. I feel very fortunate...
Sun Jan 1, 2012

Tar Heels seek modern-era home win streak mark
With a win today against Monmouth (3 pm, ESPNU), #5 North Carolina will have done something it hasn’t done since before Dean Smith was born...
Sun Jan 1, 2012

Historian takes readers back to ACC basketball's past
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when giants walked the earth: Everett Case of N.C. State, who brought the fast break,...
Thu Dec 22, 2011

Roy Williams awakens Super Barnes vs. Texas
There aren't any phone booths inside the mammoth Dean Smith Center on North Carolina's campus. So at least we know that Harrison Barnes didn't duck...
Wed Dec 21, 2011

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