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Dean Smith
Dean Smith at Hall of Fame ceremony on March 11, 2006. Photo credit: Nathan Sink.
Dean Smith at Hall of Fame ceremony on March 11, 2006. Photo credit: Nathan Sink.
Title Head coach
College North Carolina
Sport Basketball
Born February 28, 1931 (1931-02-28) (age 77)
Place of birth Emporia, Kansas
Career highlights
Overall 879-254 (.776), 2nd most wins of all-time
Championships
NCAA Championship
(1982, 1993)
ACC Tournament Championship
(1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997)
ACC Regular Season Championship
(1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995)
Awards
National Coach of the Year
(1977, 1979, 1982, 1993)
ACC Coach of the Year
(1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993)
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
(1981)
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
(2006) - inaugural class
Basketball Hall of Fame
(1983)
FIBA Hall of Fame
(2007) - inaugural class
Playing career
1949–1953 Kansas
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1955–1958
1958-1961
1976
1961–1997		 Air Force (asst.)
North Carolina (asst.)
Olympic Men's Basketball
North Carolina
Basketball Hall of Fame, 1983
College Basketball Hall of Fame, 2006

Dean Edwards Smith (born February 28, 1931) is a retired men’s college basketball head coach. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been hailed as a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful thirty-six year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) from 1961 to 1997.

During Smith's tenure at UNC, the men's basketball team won two national titles and appeared in eleven Final Fours.[1] While at UNC, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting UNC’s first African American scholarship player Charlie Scott and pushing for equal treatment for African Americans by local businesses.[2] Smith coached and worked with numerous individuals at UNC that went on to achieve notable success in basketball, as either players or coaches or both.

Smith retired from coaching in 1997, ending an over thirty year career with North Carolina. He retired with the distinction of having the most wins in NCAA Division I men's basketball history. Since retirement, Smith has used his influence to help out in various charitable ventures and political activities.

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[edit] Early years

Smith was born in Emporia, Kansas, on February 28, 1931.[3][4] Both of his parents, Alfred Smith and Vesta Edwards Smith,[5] were public school teachers.[3] Smith would spend the first fifteen years of his life in Emporia, and would later move to Topeka.[6]

Smith grew up around basketball. His father, Alfred, coached the Emporia High Spartans basketball team to the 1934 state title in Kansas.[3] This 1934 team was notable for having the first African-American basketball player in Kansas tournament history.[3] During high school, Smith also was the Spartans' quarterback in football and catcher for baseball.[7] While at Topeka High School, Smith lettered in basketball all four years and was named all-state in basketball as a senior.[3][7]

[edit] College years

After graduating from high school, Smith attended the University of Kansas on an academic scholarship where he majored in mathematics and joined the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity.[8][7] While at Kansas, Smith continued his interest in sports by playing varsity basketball, varsity baseball, and freshman football. During his time on the basketball team, Kansas won a national championship in 1952 and finished second in the 1953 college basketball tournament.[7][8] Smith's basketball coach at Kansas was the legendary Forrest "Phog" Allen, who had been coached in college by James Naismith, the inventor of the basketball.[8] Post graduation, Smith served as assistant coach at Kansas in the 1953–54 season.[9] Ironically, after leaving Kansas, Smith would see his former team lose to North Carolina in the 1957 national championship game after triple overtime.[10]

[edit] Early career in basketball coaching

Smith's next job was in the United States Air Force in Germany, where he served as a physical education teacher.[11] Smith returned to the United States in 1955, and later he was the head coach of United States Air Force Academy's baseball, basketball, and golf teams.[9][12] From 1955-1958, Smith would serve as assistant coach for Bob Spears.[12][13] Yet, Smith's big break would come in the Southern United States. In 1958, North Carolina's coach Frank McGuire asked Smith to join his staff as an assistant coach.[9] Smith served under McGuire for three years until 1961, when McGuire was forced to resign by Chancellor William Aycock in the wake of recruiting scandals.[9] Before McGuire's departure, Aycock asked 30 year-old Smith to become the new North Carolina head coach for the 1961-1962 season.[9][14]

[edit] Tenure as head coach at the University of North Carolina

Smith's first season as coach of the University of North Carolina in 1961 did not open smoothly. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) had canceled the Dixie Classic, an annual basketball tournament in North Carolina, due to a national point shaving scandal that included three North Carolina State University (N.C. State) players—Don Gallagher, Stan Niewierowski, and Terry Litchfield—and one UNC player, Lou Brown.[15] As a result of the scandal, both N.C. State and UNC de-emphasized basketball by cutting their regular-season schedules. In Smith's first season from 1961–62, UNC played only seventeen games and went 8-9.[9][16] Three years later in 1965, he was famously hanged in effigy on the university campus after a disappointing loss to Wake Forest.[9] Soon after, his team won nine of the last eleven games.[17] Despite a slow beginning, Smith turned the program into a consistent success. After the 1966 season, Smith would never finish lower than third in the ACC.[18] His first major successes came in the late 1960s, when his teams won three consecutive regular-season and tournament championships in the ACC, and went to three straight Final Fours. Smith would have to take seven trips to the Final Four before winning his first national title with North Carolina in 1982. Nine years later in 1991, Smith's North Carolina team returned to the Final Four. While Smith was generally known for being a fairly even-keel coach, he was ejected from the 1991 Final Four game between UNC and Kansas after receiving two technical fouls.[19][20] However, North Carolina's men's basketball team would not win a NCAA championship until 1993.[21]

[edit] First National Championship

Michael Jordan and Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men's basketball teams on February 10, 2007. Photo credit: Zeke Smith
Michael Jordan and Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina game honoring the 1957 and 1982 men's basketball teams on February 10, 2007.[22] Photo credit: Zeke Smith

Dean Smith's first national championship occurred at the 1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, when the team was composed of future NBA players such as Michael Jordan and James Worthy.[23] Before entering in the NCAA Tournament, UNC had a record of 32-2.[24] Along with UNC, Georgetown, Houston and Louisville advanced to the Final Four. In the semi-finals, UNC defeated Houston 68-63 in New Orleans while Georgetown defeated Louisville with the score of 50-46.

In the final game at New Orleans, Georgetown faced UNC in front of 61,612 spectators. The UNC squad faced a Georgetown team stacked with another future NBA star, Patrick Ewing. There was a constant lead change between the teams—Georgetown was leading with a full court press and UNC was put on the defensive. The climax of the game occurred when Jordan, with 18 seconds left on the clock, stole a pass and made a field goal. This, along with a foul on Worthy at the two second mark, sealed the game and the NCAA Championship for UNC.[23]

The 1982 NCAA Division I Championship Game was between the Georgetown Hoyas, led by Patrick Ewing, versus the North Carolina Tar Heels, led by James Worthy and a young Michael Jordan. The game was evenly matched throughout. However, with 17 seconds left in the clock, and the Tar Heels behind by 1 point, Michael Jordan made the game-winning shot, 63-62. Georgetown ran all the way to the end of the court, and held the ball, hoping to take a last-second shot to end the game. However, Jordan stepped into guard Fred Brown's passing lane, and Brown mistakenly passed the ball to James Worthy. Worthy was then immediately fouled, and missed both free throw shots. Georgetown had no timeouts left and lost the game. The 1982 NCAA championship game would be remembered by Jordan's shot and Brown's turnover.

[edit] Second National Championship

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In 1993, fielding players such as George Lynch, Eric Montross, Brian Reese, Donald Williams and Derrick Phelps, the team started out with an 8-0 record until losing to Michigan at a last minute shot. Wins over Duke and Tennessee during the final games of the season placed the Tar Heels as the top seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) tournament. The tournament was eventually won by Georgia Tech, which faced UNC without the injured Derrick Phelps in the final match. Starting at the national tournament, North Carolina defeated East Carolina, Rhode Island and Cincinnati while playing in the regionals. After defeating Kansas in the semi-finals, UNC was set to play Michigan in New Orleans. Stacked with Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five, the Michigan squad could not defeat UNC again as they did earlier in the season.[25] Chris Webber called a timeout when Michigan did not have any timeouts to give. Also, Smith's team had a foul to give.[26]

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[edit] Coaching style

Bust of Dean Smith at the Dean Smith Center. Photo credit: Rob Goldberg
Bust of Dean Smith at the Dean Smith Center. Photo credit: Rob Goldberg

Dean Smith's teams varied in style, depending on the type of players which were available. Smith's teams by season generally featured a fast-break style, a half-court offense that emphasized the passing game, and an aggressive trapping defense that produced turnovers and easy baskets. From 1970 until Smith's retirement, North Carolina shot over 50 percent from the floor all but four years. Smith is also known for running a clean program and having a high graduation rate for his players with 96.6% players going on to graduate.[27][28]

Smith is credited with creating or popularizing the following basketball techniques: The "tired signal," in which a player would use a hand signal (originally a raised fist) to indicate that he needed to come out for a rest,[29][30] huddling at the free throw line before a foul shot,[29][30] encouraging players who scored a basket to point a finger at the teammate who passed them the ball, in honor of the passer's selflessness.[29][30] Instituting a variety of defensive sets in one game,[29][31] having the point guard call out the defense set for the team,[29][31] and creating a number of defensive sets, including the point zone, the run-and-jump, and double-teaming the screen-and-roll.[7]

But strategically, Smith is most associated with his implementation of the four corners offense, a strategy for stalling with a lead near the end of the game. Smith's teams executed the four corners set so effectively that in 1985, the NCAA instituted a shot clock to speed up play and minimize ball-control offense.[32][7] Although fellow Kansas alum John McClendon actually invented the four corners offense, Smith is better known for utilizing it in games.[29] Smith is also the author of Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense, which is the best-selling technical basketball book in history.[1]

Smith also instituted the practice of starting all his team's seniors on the last home game of the season, known as "Senior Day", as a way of honoring the contributions of the substitutes as well as the stars.[33] In one season when the team included six seniors, he opted to put all six on the floor at the beginning of the game – drawing a technical foul – rather than leave one of them out.[34]

In 1993, Smith used a modification method which he later used at North Carolina. At a conference in Switzerland, Smith was presented a tape of a lecturer who used doctored images to achieve his goal of losing weight. The photo showed him of what he will look like if he was thin, which gave him motivation to reach that goal. Using this tactic, Smith took a picture of the scoreboard from the 1982 Championship and modified it to say 1993 and erased the name Georgetown and left it blank. He proceeded to place copies of the photo in all of the lockers so the players can look and achieve the goal that Smith wanted.[25]

[edit] Retirement

Smith announced his retirement on October 9, 1997. He had said that if he ever felt he could not give his team the same enthusiasm he had given for years, he would retire.[35] Bill Guthridge, his assistant for thirty years, succeeded him as head coach.[36] He was the highest winning coach in NCAA Men's Basketball Division I history with 879 wins. However, Smith's record was broken by former Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight on January 1, 2007.[37] Currently, he has the ninth highest winning percentage of any men’s college basketball coach at 77.6 percent.[38] Later, on December 22, 1997, Smith was named "Sportsman of the Year" by Sports Illustrated.[39]

Even in retirement, Smith still has a large influence on North Carolina community and basketball. In October 2007, he received a flu vaccine to promote flu awareness for senior citizens.[40] In addition, Smith talked to Roy Williams regarding his decision about whether or not to replace a struggling Matt Doherty as head coach in 2003.[41] Williams had previously declined the head coaching position three years earlier when Guthridge retired.[42] Currently, Smith serves as the unofficial Tar Heels consultant and has an office in the Dean Smith Center.[13]

[edit] Political activities and personal life

Smith is one of the most prominent liberals in North Carolina politics. Politically, he is best known for promoting desegregation. In 1964, Smith joined a local pastor and a black UNC theology student to integrate The Pines, a Chapel Hill restaurant. He also integrated the Tar Heels basketball team by recruiting Charlie Scott as the university's first black scholarship athlete.[43] In 1965, Smith helped Howard Lee, a black graduate student at UNC, purchase a home in an all-white neighborhood.[7] He opposed the Vietnam War and, in the early 1980s, famously recorded radio spots to promote a freeze on nuclear weapons. He has been a prominent opponent of the death penalty. In 1998, he appeared at a clemency hearing for a death-row inmate and pointed at then-Governor Jim Hunt: "You're a murderer. And I'm a murderer. The death penalty makes us all murderers." As head coach, he periodically held UNC basketball practices in North Carolina prisons.[44]

While coach at North Carolina, he was recruited by some in the Democratic Party to run for the United States Senate against incumbent Republican Jesse Helms. He declined. But in retirement, he has continued to speak out on issues such as the war in Iraq, death penalty and gay rights.[45][44] Although a staunch Democrat, Smith did support one of his former players, Republican Richard Vinroot, for governor of North Carolina in 2000.[46][47] In 2006, Smith became the spokesperson for Devout Democrats, an inter-faith, grassroots political action committee designed to convince religious Americans to vote for Democrats. Smith was featured in an ad that ran in newspapers across North Carolina and was featured in an Associated Press article.[48] He has also contributed to former North Carolina Senator John Edwards's presidential campaign.[49]

Smith has married twice in his life. He married Ann Cleavinger with whom he has three children. The couple divorced in 1973.[12] [Second wife], [sons/daughters]. Recently, on December 3, 2007, Smith had a knee replacement, and is currently recovering from the surgery.[50]

[edit] Accomplishments and recognition

[edit] Accomplishments

Dean Smith display at the newly opened North Carolina Basketball Museum. Photo credit: Zeke Smith.
Dean Smith display at the newly opened North Carolina Basketball Museum. Photo credit: Zeke Smith.

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Throughout his long career, Dean Smith had many accomplishments and awards.:

  • 879 wins in 36 years of coaching, 2nd most in men's college Division I basketball history behind Bob Knight.[51] Adolph Rupp's 876 wins came after 41 years of coaching.[27] Smith compiled a 77.6% winning percentage while coaching 1,133 games at an average of 31.5 games a season. Rupp coached 1069 games in 41 years at an average of 26 games a season with an 82.2% winning percentage.
  • 77.6% winning percentage, which puts him 9th on highest winning percentage.[38]
  • Fourth total number of college games coached with 1,133.[38]
  • Most Division I 20-win seasons, with 27 consecutive 20-win seasons from 1970–1997[27] and 30 20-win seasons total.[38]
  • 22 seasons with at least 25 wins
  • 35 consecutive seasons with a 50% or better record.[27]
  • Two NCAA men's basketball national championships (1982, 1993)
  • 11 Final Fours (second all-time to John Wooden's 12).[27]
  • 17 regular-season ACC titles, plus 33 straight years finishing in the conference's top three and 20 years in the top two
  • 13 ACC tournament titles
  • 27 NCAA tournament appearances, including 23 consecutive.[27]
  • 96.6% graduation rate among players.[27][52]
  • Recruited 26 All-Americans to play at North Carolina under him.[27]
  • His players were often successful in the NBA. Five of Smith's players have been Rookie of the Year in either the NBA or ABA. Among Smith's most successful players in the NBA are Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Phil Ford, Bob McAdoo, Billy Cunningham, Kenny Smith, Walter Davis, Jerry Stackhouse, Antawn Jamison, Rick Fox, Vince Carter and Rasheed Wallace. Smith coached 25 NBA first round draft picks.[27]
  • In 1976, Smith coached the United States team to a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Montreal.
  • Smith is one of only three coaches to have coached teams to an Olympic gold medal, an NIT championship and an NCAA championship.[27] The others are Pete Newell and Bob Knight.
  • Smith is one of only two people that have both played on and coached a winning NCAA championship basketball team.[27] The other is Bob Knight.
The Dean Smith Center, from the back
The Dean Smith Center, from the back
The interior of the Dean Smith Center
The interior of the Dean Smith Center

[edit] Recognition

Smith received a number of personal honors during his coaching career. He was named the National Coach of the Year four times (1977, 1979, 1982, 1993) and ACC Coach of the Year eight times (1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993). Smith was also inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on May 2, 1983, two years after being enshrined in the North Carolina Hall of Fame.

Smith was the first recipient of the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, given by the University of North Carolina Committee on Teaching Awards for "a broader range of teaching beyond the classroom."[52] He has also been awarded honorary doctorates by Eastern University and Catawba College.[53]

The basketball arena at UNC, widely referred to as the "Dean Dome", was named the Dean Smith Center. In 1997, upon his retirement, Smith was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. ESPN named Smith one of the five all-time greatest American coaches of any sport. In 1998 he won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, presented at the annual ESPY Awards hosted by ESPN.[54]

On November 17, 2006, Smith was recognized for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was one of five, along with Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, John Wooden and Dr. James Naismith, selected to represent the inaugural class.[55] In 2007, he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame.


[edit] Coaching tree

One hallmark of Smith's tenure as coach was the concept of the "Carolina Family," the idea that anyone associated with the program was entitled to the support of others.[56] Many of his former players and assistant coaches have followed Smith into the coaching profession. Below are individuals who have interacted with Smith and went on to become coaches of college or professional basketball teams.

Name Job Tenure Connection with Smith References
Larry Brown NCAA basketball coach; NBA coach
1979 — 81 (UCLA); 1983 — 1988 (University of Kansas); also coached the following NBA teams: Denver Nuggets, New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Clippers, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers, San Antonio Spurs, the Detroit Pistons, and the New York Knicks
 player (1959 — 1963) and assistant coach (1965 — 67) for Smith [57][58]
Scott Cherry NCAA assistant basketball coach 1998-99 (Middle Tennessee); 1999 — 2002; 2003 — 04 (George Mason), 2002 — 03 (Tennessee Tech), 2002 — present (Western Kentucky) player for Smith (1989 — 1991) [59][60]
Billy Cunningham NBA coach
1977 — 1985 (Philadelphia 76ers)
 player for Smith 1962 — 1965 [61] [62]
Matt Doherty NCAA basketball coach
2000 — 2003 (University of North Carolina); 2006 — present (Southern Methodist University)
 player for Smith (1980 — 1984) [63]
Eddie Fogler NCAA basketball coach
1986 — 1989 (Wichita State University); 1989 — 1993 (Vanderbilt University); 1994 — 2001 (University of South Carolina)
 point guard during 1970s and assistant coach to Dean Smith [64]
Phil Ford NCAA basketball assistant coach; NBA assistant coach
1988 — 2000 (University of North Carolina); 2004 — 2005 (Detroit Pistons); 2006 — (New York Knicks)
 player under Smith; assistant coach under Smith [65]
Bill Guthridge NCAA basketball assistant coach and coach
2000 — 2003 (University of North Carolina)
 Smith's assistant coach for thirty years [66]
Dave Hanners NCAA basketball assistant coach; NBA assistant coach
1980 — 1983 (UNC Wilmington); 1983 — 85 (Furman University); 1985 — 89 (East Tennessee State); 1989 — 2000 (University of North Carolina); 2000 — 2003 (Philadelphia 76ers); 2003 — 2005 (Detroit Pistons); 2005 — present (New York Knicks)
 guard under Smith (1972 — 1976); assistant coach under Smith (1989 — 2000) [67][68]
George Karl NBA coach
2004 — present (Denver Nuggets)
 player for Smith (1969 — 1973) [69]
Mitch Kupchak NBA general manager
2000 — present (Los Angeles Lakers)
 player for Smith (1973 — 1976) [70]
Jeff Lebo NCAA assistant basketball coach; NCAA basketball coach current head coach of Auburn; past head coach of Tennessee Tech and UT-Chattanooga; assistant coach for South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and East Tennessee State player for Smith (1986 — 1989) [71]
Buzz Peterson NCAA basketball coach; Director of Player Personnel of the Charlotte Bobcats
[assistant coach] 1987 — 1989 (Appalachian State); 1989 — 90 (East Tennessee State) 1990 — 93 (North Carolina State); [associate head coach] 1993 — 96 Vanderbilt University; [head coach] 1996 — 2000 (Appalachian State); 2000 — 2001 (University of Tulsa); 2001 — 2005 (University of Tennessee); 2005 — 2007 (Coastal Carolina);
 player for Smith (1981 — 1985) [72]
King Rice NCAA basketball coach assistant coach to Providence College, University of Oregon, and Illinois State. Current coach to Vanderbilt University player for Smith (1988 — 1991) [73]
Tony Shaver NCAA basketball coach
1986 — 2003 (Hampden-Sydney College); 1986 — 2003 (William & Mary)
 point guard under Smith (1972 — 1975) [74]
Pat Sullivan NCAA assistant basketball coach; NBA assistant coach
1997 — 2001 (University of North Carolina); 2001 — 2003 (University of North Carolina at Wilmington; assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons and the New Jersey Nets
 player for Smith (1990 — 1995); assistant coach for Smith (1997 — 2001) [75][76][77]
Terry Truax NCAA basketball coach
1983 — 1997 (Towson University)
 former assistant coach to Smith [78]
Randy Wiel NCAA basketball coach;
coach at Middle Tennessee and UNC Asheville
 player for Smith (1975 — 1978) [79]
Roy Williams NCAA basketball coach
1988 — 2003 (University of Kansas); 2003 — present (University of North Carolina)
 assistant head coach to Smith in 1978 [80]

[edit] Coaching record at the University of North Carolina

In summary, Dean Smith's coaching statistics during his career were 879 wins and 254 losses (77.5 percent) overall as well as 364 wins and 136 losses (72.8 percent) in the Atlantic Coast Conference, as reported by Sports Illustrated in 1997[81] and Detroit News.[82]

Season Overall Record ACC Record Postseason
1961–62 8-9 7-7 ACC tournament first round
1962–63 15-6 10-4 ACC tournament semifinal
1963–64 12-12 6-8 ACC tournament semifinal
1964–65 15-9 10-4 ACC tournament first round
1966–67 26-6 12-2 NCAA Final Four
1967–68 28-4 12-2 NCAA runner-up
1968–69 27-5 12-2 NCAA Final Four
1969–70 18-9 9-5 NIT first round
1970–71 26-6 11-3 NIT champion
1971–72 26-5 9-3 NCAA Final Four
1972-73 25-8 8-4 NIT semifinal
1973–74 22-6 9-3 NIT first round
1974–75 23-8 8-4 NCAA Sweet 16
1975–76 25-4 11-1 NCAA first round
1976–77 28-5 9-3 NCAA runner-up
1977–78 23-8 9-3 NCAA first round
1978–79 23-6 9-3 NCAA first round
1979–80 21-8 9-5 NCAA first round
1980–81 29-8 10-4 NCAA runner-up
1981–82 32-2 12-2 NCAA champion
1982–83 28-8 12-2 NCAA Elite Eight
1983–84 28-3 14-0 NCAA Sweet 16
1984–85 27-9 9-5 NCAA Elite Eight
1985–86 28-6 10-4 NCAA Sweet 16
1986–87 32-4 14-0 NCAA Elite Eight
1987–88 27-7 11-3 NCAA Elite Eight
1988–89 29-8 9-5 NCAA Sweet 16
1989–90 21-13 8-6 NCAA Sweet 16
1990–91 29-6 10-4 NCAA Final Four
1991–92 23-10 9-7 NCAA Sweet 16
1992–93 34-4 14-2 NCAA champion
1993–94 28-7 11-5 NCAA second round
1994–95 28-6 12-4 NCAA Final Four
1995–96 21-11 10-6 NCAA second round
1996–97 28-7 11-5 NCAA Final Four

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[edit] References

  • Chansky, Art (1997). The Dean's List: A Celebration of Tar Heel Basketball and Dean Smith. New York, New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-52007-1. 
  • Chansky, Art (1999). Dean's Domain: The Inside Story of Dean Smith and His College Basketball Empire. Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press. ISBN 1-56352-540-2. 
  • Powell, Adam; Phil Ford (2005). University of North Carolina Basketball. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-738-54150-8. 
  • Rosenthal, Ken (2001). Dean Smith: A Tribute. Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing, LLC. ISBN 1-58261-003-7. 
  • Scott, David Scott (2004). Quotable Dean Smith: Words of Insight, Inspiration, and Intense Preparation by and about Dean Smith, the Dean of College Basketball Coaches. Nashville, Tennessee: TowleHouse Publishing. ISBN 1-58261-003-7. 
  • Smith, Dean (1998). Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense. New York, New York: Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 0-205-29119-8. 
  • Smith, Dean; Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo, Roy Williams (2004). The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching. New York, New York: The Penguin Press. ISBN 0-14-303464-2. 
  • Smith, Dean; John Kilgo and Sally Jenkins (1999). A Coach’s Life. My 40 years in college basketball. New York, New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-75880-1. 

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