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

Famous Tar Heels Golf for Children’s Causes
Dean Smith, Roy Williams and Woody Durham gathered Thursday morning for a buffet breakfast, a round of golf and to present a check for more...
Sat Jun 25, 2011

Basketball and Rhymes: Former Tar Heels, current rappers
Chapel Hill has produced some of the greatest names in basketball history; Coach Dean Smith, Michael Jordan and James Worthy just to name a few...
Thu Jun 23, 2011

Dexter Strickland Excited for Aircraft Carrier Game
Dexter Strickland has played in Madison Square Garden, the Dean Smith Center and Cameron Indoor Stadium. But he’s never played on the deck of an...
Sat Jun 18, 2011

Steve Kerr: LeBron's missing the college development that Jordan had
"Michael had three years at North Carolina with Dean Smith. That makes a big difference," Kerr said. "I think he was brought up at a...
Wed Jun 15, 2011

Dean Smith and a civil rights legacy
America was never the same after the Brown decision, but the young Dean Smith's civil rights advocacy did not end in Topeka. He signed Charlie...
Tue May 17, 2011

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