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

Pitino hoping to avoid '95 result
The building was a sea of blue. Deep blue. Kentucky blue. Full-throated Kentucky blue. Yeah, Birmingham's Civic Center wasn't a home court for Kentucky's Wildcats...
Sat Mar 29, 2008

Coach Smith, Cooke have fond memories of Yokley
As news of John Yokley's death reached Chapel Hill and beyond, former University of North Carolina head coach Dean Smith and Yokley's teammate Mike Cooke...
Sat Mar 29, 2008

Williams, Low cross paths again
Derrick Low and Roy Williams almost were united in the same basketball program. But then Williams couldn't turn down Dean Smith a second time and...
Thu Mar 27, 2008

Clouds in a Carolina blue sky
They would have both been watching Sunday, when UNC rolled to another Sweet 16. Of that, everyone seems sure. Eve Carson, the student body president,...
Tue Mar 25, 2008

Shy Smith steals the moment
There were 12 of them -- one from each ACC school -- but it was the 77-year-old man with the silver hair, light blue jacket...
Sun Mar 16, 2008

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