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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Tar Heel Firsts: UNC’s First Basketball OlympianLarry Brown was a first-team All-ACC player for Dean Smith’s second North Carolina team in 1962-63. At 14.2 points per game, he was the second...
Sun Jun 21, 2020
Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 12 - 1971-72Dean Smith broke from his policy of not bringing in junior college transfers prior to the 1971-72 season because he had a major need in...
Fri Jun 19, 2020
Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 15 - 1945-46
The 1945-46 UNC basketball team is very interesting. Playing before nearly 19,000 at the old Madison Square Garden 15 years before Dean Smith became the...
Tue Jun 16, 2020
Lawrence Taylor discusses friendship with Michael Jordan
After being drafted second overall in the 1981 NFL Draft, Lawrence Taylor returned to school to finish up that summer. It was there that he...
Sun Jun 14, 2020
100 in 100: Moore County’s Charles Waddell, 3-sport standout at UNC
A 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end for the Tar Heels, Charles Waddell caught 41 passes for 571 yards and seven touchdowns in his career earning All-ACC...
Fri Jun 12, 2020