Dean Smith's last game as a college basketball coach was in 1997 when his North Carolina team fell to eventual national champion Arizona in the Final Four. MCBB . Home Scores ...

Saturday night's Duke-North Carolina basketball game marked the end of an era with longtime Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski coaching one final road game against the Tar Heels in the Dean Smith Center.

Some 70 players, ranging in age from their 20s to almost 90, gathered in the Dean E. Smith Center for an old timer’s game that night. Every last one knew that the building’s namesake wasn’t ...

Smith was lucky to even win those two. Both titles came after major, last-second mistakes from opponents. In 1982, after Michael Jordan nailed that baseline jumper, Georgetown's Fred Brown ...

From Dean Smith to Roy Williams, Hall-of-Fame coaches are just part of the reason why. North Carolina and Kansas share more college basketball history than perhaps any two other schools.

Smith, who died this past weekend, was a four-time national coach of the year during his 36-year tenure and ranked No. 1 in career victories (879) prior to his retirement in 1997.

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.