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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Chansky’s Notebook: The Day AfterA fourth straight loss to Dean Smith’s alma mater came only 48 hours after the Tar Heels defeated Duke and sent Coach K into retirement...
Wed Apr 6, 2022
Big-time North Carolina-Kansas matchup may be decided by big-time bigsSo of course the reduction of this quartet to a couple presents to us a championship game through which the very origin of the sport...
Mon Apr 4, 2022
Chansky’s Notebook: Big Easy Again?
How UNC’s emotional victory over Duke will play out is debatable. The Tar Heels are facing a deep and talented team that could outrun or...
Mon Apr 4, 2022
Tar Heels, Jayhawks enter NCAA title tilt with common roots
Among those coached by basketball's inventor, Dr. James Naismith, who famously tacked up those peach baskets at the Springfield YMCA, was an irascible youngster named...
Mon Apr 4, 2022
UNC and Kansas are family, not rivals
UNC and Kansas are not rivals. They compete in different conferences, have met only 11 times, and reside over 1,000 miles apart. But the combatants...
Sun Apr 3, 2022