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

A Little of This, a Little of That, a Little Carolina History
Saturday at halftime of the Wake Forest game, Carolina will honor its 1982 national championship team. This is the team of James Worthy, Sam Perkins...
Sat Feb 10, 2007

Superb: '82 team had fantastic players
James Worthy played two of the best games of his distinguished North Carolina career, leading his team to the NCAA championship and being named the...
Sat Feb 10, 2007

Reunion: Heels will honor, '57, '82 teams
Lennie Rosenbluth suspected midway through the 1957 college basketball season that North Carolina was leading a charmed life and was headed to a remarkable season...
Sat Feb 10, 2007

History tells us UNC vs. Duke will be 'as good as it gets'
Remember the Tar Heels’ eight-point rally in the final 17 seconds at Carmichael Auditorium in 1974? How about Duke’s 77-75 win in the 1984 ACC...
Wed Feb 7, 2007

Farewell to Tom Zaliagiris
Tom Zaliagiris, 50, died Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at Catawba Valley Medical Center. Born Feb. 23, 1956, in Detroit, Mich., Tom graduated from Detroit Catholic...
Wed Jan 31, 2007

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