North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith smiles during a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he announced his retirement in 1997. Smith, the North Carolina basketball coaching great who ...

Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game’s biggest names like Michael Jordan ...

Men's basketball coach Dean Smith, ... "He reached 11 Final Fours, won 13 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles and coached the U.S. Olympic team to the gold medal in 1976." ...

Smith was the head coach of the Tar Heels from 1961 to 1997. ... "Coach Dean Smith passed away peacefully the evening of February 7 at his home in Chapel Hill, ... the NIT and the Olympics.

Chapel Hill, NC (SportsNetwork.com) - Former University of North Carolina head men's basketball coach Dean Smith died Saturday evening in Chapel Hill. He was 83 years old.

Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he ...

Hall of Fame Coach Dean Smith, who led North Carolina to two NCAA Championships and the USA Men’s Basketball Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1976, passed away on Saturday. Prior to Sunday’s ...

He had been an assistant for Smith with the United States team that won a gold medal at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, four years after the North Carolina coach helped him land the job at Georgetown.

Legendary North Carolina basketball Dean Smith died at age 83 Saturday. What lives on are the lessons he taught the brotherhood of Tar Heel players, principles such as putting the team first ...

Dean Smith, legendary North Carolina basketball coach, dies at 83 I joked with him that he didn’t have to say anything revealing, or even interesting. Just something pat that I could use for the ...

On Sunday, Dean Smith was remembered as a teacher, mentor, adviser and coach — and that was probably just the way he’d have preferred it. The former North Carolina coach, who died Saturday ...