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...Raleigh, N.C., Brian Schmitz drilled a 51-yard field goal in a driving rainstorm midway through the third quarter broke a 7-7 tie to spark the Tar Heels...
Perhaps the best testimony, though, to the extraordinary coach Smith was his own comportment last March after his Tar Heels defeated a pesky and game Fairfield University team, 82-74, in the first round of the NCAA tournament--a win that temporarily tied Smith with Kentucky's Adolph Rupp for most victories in a career. Rather than celebrate the record, Smith sought out each and every member of the opposition to congratulate him. He asked leading scorer Greg Francis, "Do you always play like that?" and told coach Paul Cormier, "I just want you to know we played very well...
...coach, who begat Dean Smith, who begat not just Jordan and scores of NBA players but also such notable coaches as Billy Cunningham, Larry Brown, George Karl, Roy Williams and Eddie Fogler. Almost all his former charges remain intensely loyal to him. Jordan, in fact, still wears his blue Tar Heel shorts under his Chicago Bull shorts. "He's a father figure to a lot of players and a lot of people," Jordan said last week...
Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way he treats the best player on the team, and he is as concerned about their education as he is about winning. He takes as much pride in the doctors and lawyers he coached as he does in the All-Stars...
...Americans, including Michael Jordan, Jerry Stackhouse, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Mitch Kupchak, and Billy Cunningham. Some of them left Dean early. Most of them stayed. Many became his assistants, or head coaches elsewhere. Smith was always in the Dean Dome, the capital of ACC basketball, coaching the Tar Heels...