Coach Dean Smith

College basketball coach

Dean Smith was an American college basketball coach and administrator. He is best known for his 36-year tenure as the head coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball team. Smith led the Tar Heels to two NCAA championships and was a pioneer in the development of the fast break offense. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983. Smith was born in 1931 in E...