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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

Podcast: The unintentional 'retirement tour' Roy Williams deserved
Roy Williams, following the lead of his mentor Dean Smith, was not interested in the fanfare or public adulation that would come with some sort...

Chansky’s Notebook: The Day After
A 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...

Big-time North Carolina-Kansas matchup may be decided by big-time bigs
So of course the reduction of this quartet to a couple presents to us a championship game through which the very origin of the sport...

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...

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...

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