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

UNC Basketball to Honor Roy Williams on Saturday at N.C. State Game
North Carolina will honor former head basketball coach Roy Williams at halftime of the N.C. State game on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. The ceremony will...
Fri Jan 28, 2022

UNC's 1982 National Championship Team Reuniting Saturday
One of the greatest teams in UNC Basketball history will be back in Chapel Hill this weekend. The 1982 National Champions are holding their 40th...
Fri Jan 28, 2022

NBA Archive 75: Billy Cunningham
Billy Cunningham, the lean leaper, who earned the nickname “Kangaroo Kid,” became a collegiate star in the days before Dean Smith’s program was a national...
Fri Jan 14, 2022

Hubert Davis trusts in wisdom from Dean Smith while navigating first season as UNC coach
As Hubert Davis navigates this new experience as UNC’s first-year coach and confronts the challenges that emerge along the course of a college basketball season,...
Wed Jan 12, 2022

How Monmouth coach, former UNC standout King Rice is making the most of second chances
As King Rice sat in Dean Smith’s office in 1990 for the latest of his bad decisions, the way he remembers the conversation established the...
Sun Jan 9, 2022

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