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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Book Excerpt: Nineteen Eighty-TwoSteven Leventhal is writing Nineteen Eighty-Two: An Incredible Year In Chapel Hill, the journey of a college senior. Detailed in this excerpt from the "February...
Thu Mar 10, 2022
Davis gives players more insights on opponents than he got playing for Dean SmithCurrent North Carolina basketball players are exposed to much more information about opponents than they got in the days when Coach Hubert Davis was playing...
Tue Mar 8, 2022
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...
Fri Mar 4, 2022
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...
Thu Mar 3, 2022
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...
Wed Mar 2, 2022