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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

Dean Smith got the best of Coach K, then he got the best from him
In a way, Mike Krzyzewski has become what Dean Smith was, but “I don’t want to say it that way,” he said, “because nobody can...

Dean Smith and Bob Knight: Inside a Basketball Bromance
Dean Smith and Bob Knight, two of the sharpest basketball cortexes, rivals who between them would win five national titles and nearly 1,800 games. For...

Video: J.R. Reid Interview On ACC Network's "Packer and Durham"
Former UNC basketball star and current assistant coach at Monmouth University, J.R. Reid joins Wes Durham and Mark Packer on the ACC Network's "Packer and...

Roy Williams’s Wife Stopped Him From Working With Bob Knight
Before Roy Williams became North Carolina’s second-winningest coach in program history, he was an assistant on Tar Heels legend Dean Smith's coaching staff for 10...

Chansky’s Notebook: Dean Smith Still The Storyline
The ACC Tournament docuseries sent Dean Smith out the right way. After watching the first two episodes of the 10-part documentary, I wondered how it...

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