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This article is about the American basketball coach. For the English football manager and former player, see Dean Smith (footballer, born 1971). For other people with the same name, see Dean Smith (disambiguation).

Dean Smith
Smith c. 1973
Biographical details
Born(1931-02-28)February 28, 1931
Emporia, Kansas, U.S.
DiedFebruary 7, 2015(2015-02-07) (aged 83)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
1949–1953Kansas
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1953–1955Kansas (assistant)
1955–1958Air Force (assistant)
1958–1961North Carolina (assistant)
1961–1997North Carolina
Head coaching record
Overall879–254 (.776)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As a coach
  • 2x NCAA Division I champion (1982, 1993)
  • 11x NCAA Regional – Final Four (1967–1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997)
  • 13x ACC tournament (1967–1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997)
  • 17x ACC regular season (1967–1969, 1971, 1972, 1976–1979, 1982–1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995)
  • NIT (1971)
As a player
NCAA Division I Tournament (1952)
Awards
  • Naismith College Coach of the Year (1993)
  • 8× ACC Coach of the Year (1967, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993)
  • FIBA Hall of Fame (2007)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1983
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
Medal record
Head Coach for Dean Smith United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal Head coach

Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.[a] Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%).[1] During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours.[2] Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen.

Smith was best known for running a clean program and having a high graduation rate, with 96.6% of his athletes receiving their degrees.[3][4] While at North Carolina, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting the university's first African-American scholarship basketball player, Charlie Scott, and pushing for equal treatment for African Americans by local businesses.[5] Smith coached and worked with numerous people at North Carolina who achieved notable success in basketball, as players, coaches, or both. Smith retired in 1997, saying that he was not able to give the team the same level of enthusiasm that he had given it for years. After retiring, Smith used his influence to help various charitable ventures and liberal political activities, but in his later years he suffered from advanced dementia and ceased most public activities.[6]

  1. ^ "NCAA stats". NCAA. Archived from the original on October 8, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
  2. ^ "Dean Smith Biography". Hall of Famers. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Inc. Archived from the original on May 5, 2007. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
  3. ^ "Smith by the Numbers". Sports Illustrated. Dean Smith: The 1997 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Archived from the original on May 24, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference beloff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "ACC 50th Anniversary Team". NBA.com. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
  6. ^ "Precious Memories". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2014.

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