Doubleday Now he's simply Coach K ... Jimmy says, 'Dean, you're here already? You're early!' Dean just cracked up. Couldn't stop laughing." Even though he had not yet won a national championship ...

starting The V Foundation. KELLY: Valvano coached for NC State. Mike Krzyzewski coached for Duke and Dean Smith for UNC. John Feinstein covered all three men and their teams. And now he's written ...

UNC coach Dean Smith, even then at 49 considered one of the best coaches ever, believed the game was over and extended his hand to Krzyzewski, 33, who ignored Smith’s attempted handshake ...

Longtime Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was named ... University of Chapel Hill Coach Dean Smith. The award will be presented to Coach K on May 6 at the Emily Krzyzewski Center's annual ...

UNC coach Dean Smith & Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski shake hands before a 1996 game at UNC. File photo During that span, Smith won his first national championship in 1982. Valvano, who arrived at N.C ...

North Carolina legend Dean ... Smith held a 24-14 record against Krzyzewski's Blue Devils and retired as the winningest coach in major men's college basketball history -- a mark Coach K would ...

North Carolina’s Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski couldn’t stand each other. Smith was the elder statesman of basketball in the Tar Heel State. Coach K was the kid outsider trying to topple the ...

AP Photo/Paul Sancya Former North Carolina player Michael Jordan, left, gives his former coach Dean Smith a kiss during halftime of a college basketball game between North Carolina and Wake Forest ...

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 ...

Jim Bounds 1997 News & Observer file photo “I really wanted Dean Smith to coach until he was 100 if he wanted to, and we had a great team that year. But he demanded I do it.” Duke’s Mike ...