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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Hall of Fame basketball coach Lefty Driesell dies at 92Hall of Fame college basketball coach Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell, who won 786 career games while leading four different Division I schools to 100 victories,...
Sat Feb 17, 2024
Art’s Angle: Building A ProgramOld-timers will watch these Tar Heels and remember Dean Smith’s teams. They are showing trust and teamwork; roles for up to ten men and having...
Mon Jan 22, 2024
Remembering Rick Duckett
Rick Duckett entered the arena of coaching in 1975 when Coach Dean Smith invited him to become team manager at North Carolina. He later became...
Mon Jan 15, 2024
Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and the dominance of the Tar Heels and Hoyas in the 1980s
Dean Smith returned UNC to national prominence in the 1970s, regularly taking the Tar Heels on deep NCAA Tournament runs. But it was in 1982...
Fri Jan 12, 2024
Chansky’s Notebook: Hungry Hearts
Hubert Davis' third UNC team is beginning to look like the squads his old basketball coach Dean Smith turned out. It did not happen with...
Mon Jan 8, 2024