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| Dean Smith |
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University of North Carolina
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Smith finished his career as the alltime winningest coach in basketball history with 879 victories.
In 36 years, Smith coached Carolina to 11 Final Fours, two national titles and 13 ACC Tournament Championships.
Over 96 percent of Smith's lettermen graduated since his first year in 1961.
From 1981 to 1989, Carolina was ranked in the final Top 10 of both the Associated Press and coaches' poll each year.
Only four times in Coach Smith's 36 years did the Tar Heels fail to make 50 percent from the field.
Smith is the author of Basketball: Multiple Offenses and Defense, which has been translated into several foreign languages and is the best-selling technical basketball book in history.
Smith graduated from Kansas where he played varsity basketball and baseball and football as a freshman.
Smith was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., in 1983. He was also inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame in 1981.
Smith was voted ACC Coach of the Year eight times - 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988 and 1993.
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