File image of basketball players practicing inside the Dean Smith Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC-Chapel Hill could renovate or replace the Dean Smith Center, the iconic home of Tar Heel basketball ...

The University of North Carolina is considering building a new men's basketball arena complex off-campus to replace the Dean Smith Center, according to a report from Greg Barnes of Inside Carolina.

Former North Carolina basketball players earned the school not to replace the Dean E. Smith Center. Earlier this month, ...

"I'm all for keeping the arena on campus," Williams told Inside Carolina. "I think that was coach Dean Smith's vision. I was his assistant when we first started talking about the Smith Center.

Sales at the Dean Dome will ... there was no advertising inside – never mind the sale – of alcohol. But now, as college athletics continue to evolve, the Smith Center — the 21,000-seat ...

The move to renovate or replace North Carolina’s Smith Center isn’t a new initiative launched as other new arenas are being built, beautified or enhanced. Those talks began more than a decade ...

It was the first game in the brand-new Dean E. Smith Center. The bright afternoon light poured in through the translucent roof. A crowd of 21,444 packed the arena. Their excitement and noise ...

When taking the court inside Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, the NFL legend — who was formally introduced as head coach of North Carolina’s football team Thursday — was showered with an ...

Duke had not one, but two buzzer-beaters to defeat North Carolina 98-96 at the Dean E. Smith Center in an overtime thriller. Wendell Moore Jr. tipped in a missed jumper by Tre Jones in overtime to ...

Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com North Carolina coach Dean Smith is enshrined in the Emporia High School Hall of Fame. His photo and bio, center, are shown on Wednesday, November 6 ...