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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
Dean Smith

Magical Meadowlands
The NCAA Tournament returned to the Meadowlands for a regional final for the 11th time this weekend. North Jersey has been a good path for...

Carolina Runs Away from USC
It was one of the most memorable March moments. Michael Jordan hit a jumper with 17 seconds left and Georgetown's Fred Brown threw the ball...

Heels' tired signal: fist and foremost
Gasping for air after a jarring dunk, forward Tyler Hansbrough thrust his right fist in the air as he passed the North Carolina bench in...

Chansky: Deja Carolina Blue
Carolina's placement in the NCAA Tournament is eerily familiar to 10 years ago, when the Tar Heels rolled to the Final Four in Dean Smith's...

Winston-Salem notebook: Knight wandering the streets?
A decade ago, Bob Knight was in town while Dean Smith tied the record for most career victories by an NCAA Division I men's basketball...

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