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 |
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Williams, Low cross paths againDerrick 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 skyThey 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
North Carolina's win over Virginia Tech was typical of so many victories when Smith was the coach
Dean Smith heard the roars one more time yesterday. During halftime of the UNC’s ACC semifinal, as the public-address announcer presented a full lineup of...
Sun Mar 16, 2008
Krzyzewski has a love for former rival Smith
Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski stood on opposite sides of college basketball's ultimate holy war for all those years, raging in that beautiful never-ending drama...
Sat Mar 15, 2008