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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Lefty Driesell was a character, a comic and an all-time great coachLefty Driesell’s greatest rival — and nemesis — was North Carolina Tar Heels basketball coach Dean Smith. Years ago, when the NCAA was considering adding...
Wed Feb 21, 2024
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 Program
Old-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