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

1991 Final Four revisited
Seventeen years ago at the Final Four in Indianapolis, Roy Williams was chagrined at the hype about "The Pupil vs. The Mentor." As Williams faces...
Fri Apr 4, 2008

A Tar Heel Struggles for Time, Not Wins
The player with the most victories in North Carolina men’s basketball history is not Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Sam Perkins or any of the other...
Fri Apr 4, 2008

Final Four to offer rare history lesson
John Wooden gave us the basics of modern-day coaching. Dean Smith refined 'em. James Naismith, well, he simply invented basketball. Now the schools these greats...
Mon Mar 31, 2008

Final quartet is one for the ages
The survival of Kansas was a mixed blessing for Roy Williams, who still cares enough about the institution that gave him the opportunity to prove...
Mon Mar 31, 2008

Joe Holladay happy as a UNC assistant
By staying one of head coach Roy Williams' right-hand men for 15 seasons, Joe Holladay has displayed a longevity that is rare these days in...
Sun Mar 30, 2008

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