Coach Dean Smith, in total Dean Edwards Smith, (born February 28, 1931, Emporia, Kansas, U.S.--expired February 7, 2015, Chapel Hill, North Carolina), American collegiate basketball coach in the University of North Carolina (1961--97) who, with 879 career victories, retired as the most successful men's collegiate basketball coach; his record has been broken by Bob Knight at 2007.
Smith earned a diploma in mathematics (1953) in the University of Kansas, where he played basketball under the legendary Phog Allen. Smith was a reserve guard on the Kansas team that won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) name in 1952.
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