Dean Smith proved it's really, really hard to win the NCAA tournament

Legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died this weekend at the age of 83. Rather than repeat the honorifics about Smith's unbelievable career, here are some numbers that accomplish the same thing. (An asterisk denotes that the stat is a 

The Dean Smith Tar Heels would return to the Final Four 10 more times, winning it all in 1982 and 1993, each featuring rather bizarre endings in which the Heels were clinging to a lead when a member of the opposing team did something inexplicably awful.

Legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died this weekend at the age of 83. Rather than repeat the honorifics about Smith's unbelievable career, here are some numbers that accomplish the same thing. (An asterisk denotes that the stat is a 

Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports Legendary North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith had no Big Ten ties, but his impact on the game is impossible to ignore. The two-time national champion and coach of the Tar 

(CNN) Legendary University of North Carolina head basketball coach Dean Smith — a man who left his mark on young men both on and off the court — died Saturday evening at the age of 83, according to the University of North Carolina's official