0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/12/2015
Whether you follow recruiting or not, it’s likely that you’ve heard of the saga of high school linebacker Roquan Smith. On National Signing Day (NSD), Smith announced live on ESPNU that he was going to sign with UCLA. Then, before he had a chance to send in his National Letter of Intent (NLI), he heard […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/11/2015
At one point, the flood of sports giants leaving us wasn’t tilted to one particular sport. Ernie Banks, Billy Casper, Dean Smith — they left large marks on three separate theaters of competition. Now, though, college basketball has lost two larger-than-life figures in less than a week’s time. Following Dean Smith’s passage late Saturday, UNLV […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect In the spirit of total conjecture and very little to base an opinion on, brought to you by whoever decided it was a good idea to put freaking Fritos on pizza at Papa John’s … you are given a Way Too Early Top 10, because … why not? The following […]
Roy Williams and Dean Smith at the 1991 Final Four in Indianapolis (with Jim Delany being way too happy about the moment in the background).
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/10/2015
In terms of the consistency, depth and height of coaching achievements, it’s very hard to put Dean Edwards Smith above John Wooden or Mike Krzyzewski on any all-time list in college basketball. Wooden’s championships and Coach K’s combination of national titles with Final Four appearances would almost certainly place them above Smith — maybe not […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It’s a more common kind of task to identify a coach’s greatest games or a team’s most significant moments. However, what about the under-the-radar games which gave rise to a coach’s biggest achievements? For instance: North Carolina State could not have won the 1983 national title with that remarkable win over Houston had it not […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks. Jackie Robinson. Dean Smith. While leading on the court, Dean Smith took an even more impactful leadership role in life as a civil rights leader in a newly desegregated South in the 1960s. Many know that Smith brought in the ACC’s first African-American player in Charlie Scott. What is […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Here’s your scenario: Girl gets home from work, sees boyfriend lying on couch watching television. Girl: What do you want to do tonight? So happy New Year’s Eve is on a Thursday. New Year’s Day is a Friday — it’s a three-day weekend! You wanna go to a NYE party […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/9/2015
Significant games can be great, and great games can be significant, but they don’t always overlap — far from it. The 1982 NCAA Tournament national championship game (North Carolina 63, Georgetown 62) is quite possibly the greatest basketball game Dean Smith ever coached in, and it’s on the short list of the most significant games […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
On Friday, the story hit: The postseason NIT will experiment with a 30-second shot clock, down from the current 35-second clock. It’s also true that the restricted area underneath the basket (governing block-charge calls) will be expanded from three to four feet, but the shot clock is rightly seen as the much bigger story. How […]
0 comments by Bart D
There’s a dark underside to just about every good thing in life. In the town with the fun, vibrant nightlife, it’s the unmarked club down a small alley where you need a password to get in; it’s the best restaurant in town, just as long as you don’t go in the kitchen and ruin it […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/8/2015
For many Americans, Dean Smith is best known as the man who coached Michael Jordan in college. Smith is, quite simply, the man who mentored one of America’s two greatest team-sport athletes from the 20th century, Babe Ruth being the other. (Muhammad Ali, of course, didn’t play a team sport.) Dean Smith also won 879 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Today — Sunday, February 8, 2015 — the men and women who covered North Carolina basketball as beat writers and reporters are remembering Dean Edwards Smith, who died Saturday night at the age of 83. The people who interviewed Dean Smith as part of their jobs, who traveled with him as North Carolina entrenched itself […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 2/7/2015
John Thompson III was worried about the Georgetown students swarming the floor after the Hoyas’ January 15 win over Villanova. It turns out that the Wildcats were just as swarming on both sides of the ball on Saturday, exacting a measure of revenge on Georgetown. Villanova shot lights out from the perimeter, building a large […]
0 comments by Scott
Saturday, February 7, 2015, is a historic day for the ACC. For the first time in league history, there are two games featuring top-10 matchups on the same day. A lot of excitement and hype have visited these two twin occasions, Duke hosting Notre Dame and Virginia hosting Louisville. The Blue Devils were a rather […]
0 comments by Scott
Duke is currently crushing Notre Dame 60-40 midway through the second half. If you haven’t seen the game, the vine up top pretty much sums up how things have gone for the Fighting Irish. We’ll have more coverage of this game later today.
