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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

Former UNC basketball player Gerald Tuttle passes away at 73
On Friday, April 24, 2020, E. Gerald Tuttle, 73, of Hickory, passed away. Gerald graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he was a...

Video: Michael Jordan on How Dean Smith Shaped His Game
Michael Jordan arrived at UNC as a 6-foot-6, skinny kid from Wilmington, N.C. He went on to become one of the best players in UNC...

Podcast: AJ & Barry Jacobs Discuss Michael Jordan's UNC Days
Longtime ACC writer Barry Jacobs tells stories about when he saw early greatness in Michael Jordan, the Dean Smith effect, how Jordan assimilated when he...

Video: All the UNC Parts From the Michael Jordan Documentary
North Carolina basketball tweeted out an edited version of "The Last Dance" Michael Jordan Documentary with all of the UNC tidbits from Sunday's episodes. Jordan,...

Tony Massenburg, Drew Gooden recall first time they saw Michael Jordan
For former NBA player Tony Massenburg was 15 years old when his high school coach packed the basketball team in a van and drove them...

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