
The University of North Carolina men’s basketball team honored legendary coach Dean Smith, who passed away earlier this month by starting their game today against Georgia Tech, by running the offense that he popularized in the early 1960s. Not only
by Trent Baker21 Feb 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

On Monday’s broadcast of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” co-hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon looked back on the career of late former University of North Carolina Men’s Basketball coach Dean Smith. Wilbon remembers Smith for what he did off the
by Trent Baker9 Feb 2015, 4:29 PM PST0

In the 1950s, Dean Smith, a math major and assistant coach to Frank McGuire at UNC, moved three decades ahead of his time when he wrote that “points per possession” played as the key stat—the entire basis for every basketball stats innovation from Dean Oliver’s Basketball on Paper to www.kenpom.com to my own www.valueaddbasketball.com measurements of players.
by John Pudner9 Feb 2015, 12:26 AM PST0

Dean Smith, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, has died at 83.
by Daniel J. Flynn8 Feb 2015, 8:35 AM PST0