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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015
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NCAA basketball coaching legend Dean Smith dies
DAN HARMSEN
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Saturday, an honorary stillness swept through college basketball arenas around the country - a vigil for one of the game's classiest innovators. $ ^{*} $
Saturday, the basketball world lost a father, a role model and a progressive.
Saturday, Dean Smith died.
After a long struggle with advanced dementia, Dean Smith, long-time North Carolina basketball coach — the ninth winningest college coach of all time — died at age 83.
Sunday, as scoreboards flashed his likeness, players bowed their heads and the world offered up oral tribute, college basketball played the swan song of a life on the basketball court and off it in which a man gave more to this world than he took.
"Smith was the gold standard," former Duke player and current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas told ESPN. Bilas had four run-ins with Smith as an opponent on one of the game's biggest stages.
"Even though he coached the blood rival of my school, every time I had an interaction with Smith, he was very kind to me and always a gentleman. In a
game full of characters, Smith was a great character."
A great character reaped in the hills of North Carolina, but sowed in the plains of Kansas.
Born in nearby Emporia on Feb. 28, 1931, Smith attended Topeka High where he played basketball, football and baseball.
Basketball was his true love. He played varsity basketball at Kansas from 1949-1953 on academic scholarship in quest of a mathematics degree. Smith, coached by Phog Allen, was a major part of the 1952 national championship team his junior season.
It was a clean enterprise that put doing things the right way
After graduation, he hung around Lawrence as an assistant coach for the Jayhawks from 1953-1954 and then moved to the Air Force from 1954-1958 in a similar role before landing at what would become his final destination: North Carolina.
ahead of winning games. When it was all said and done, 96.6 percent of the athletes Smith was responsible for graduated with degrees. He also made progressive race-relation moves for the time, recruiting North Carolina's first black scholarship basketball player, Charlie Scott, in 1967.
Smith spent the 1958-1961 seasons as Tarheel assistant coach under Frank McGuire. He was then promoted to the head coaching position in 1961 following the revelation of a McGuire recruiting scandal. Smith would remain on the sidelines for 36 seasons.
Soon after Scott's recruitment, Smith's winning ways off the court began to translate into winning on the court. Threestraight ACC Championships to close out the 60s gave the program some steam.
He would finish with an overall head coaching record of 879-254. (776).
A two-time national champion with North Carolina (1982, 1993), his team made the Final Four 11 times — at least twice in every decade that he coached in Chapel Hill, N.C.
But unless you knew beforehand, an encounter with Smith wouldn't lead you to that information. Not about the National Coach of the Year award (four times), not about the championships, nor the rings.
For Smith, a tenet of basketball and a tenet for his life: A lion never roars after a kill.
"There have been a lot of
pillars in our profession over time," Kansas coach Bill Self said in a Kansas Athletics press release. "But one of the most classy and innovative coaches that our sport has ever known was coach Dean Smith."
He ran a fast-break and a trapping defense. His players would point to each other on assisted baskets. You shook the hand of your opponent win or lose. You let your game do the talking.
Smith is survived by four daughters, a son and countless adoring coaches, players, fans and friends.
Today, if yould like to catch a Tarheels game in Chapel Hill, you'll be doing so inside the Dean E. Smith Center.
"Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith," former Tarheel and NBA legend Michael Jordan told ESPN. "He was more than a coach — he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father."
On Saturday, the Lion left quietly. Humbly.
The legend of Dean Smith though, lives on.
It does so honorably. And it roars
And it roars.
Edited by Kayla Schartz
Former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith smiles during a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he announced his retirement. Smith won two national championships, died "peacefully" at his home Saturday night, Feb. 7, the school said in a statement Sunday from Smith's family. He was 83.
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uba's Yulieski Gourriel hits the ball during a Caribbean Series baseball game against Mexico, in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Monday.
Cuba defeats Mexico 3-2 to win 1st Caribbean Series since 1960
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Cuba won its first Caribbean Series championship since 1960 with a 3-2 victory over Mexico on Sunday, highlighted by Yulieski Gournier's eighth inning homer.
The victory marked a return for Cuba to its winning ways in the regional baseball series it used to dominate before Cuban stars were barred by its
government in 1961 from playing professionally overseas. Cuba returned to the round-robin tournament last year but made a quick exit.
Cuba out-hit Mexico 11-4 on the way to this year's title, a day after dominating Venezuela 8-4 for a shot at the championship played this year in the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico.
It was the first time that top Cuban players got a chance to compete on the U.S. island since Cuba and the United States moved to normalize relations. Dozens of major league scouts traveled to the Caribbean
Series almost exclusively to assess Cuban talent.
Cuban starter Yosvani Torres was dominant for six innings on Sunday night, striking out five. Frederick Cepeda had a two-out RBI single, scoring Gourriel, in the first to give Cuba the early lead.
They went up 2-0 in the second inning when Luis Yander singled in a run.
But Mexico, looking for its third consecutive title in the regional series, wasn't done yet.
In the bottom of the eighth, Eric Farris hit a two-out RBI single to right to make it 3-2 but Meneses flied out to right to end the inning.
Mexico pulled within a run in the fifth after Joey Meneses led off the inning with a double. He scored on a single by Walter Ibarra.
Cuba scored again in the eighth inning when Gourriel led off with a home to left.
"The Cuban team gave themselves more opportunities than we did offensively." Mexico Manager Benjamin Gil said.
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Track and field grabs four event victories in Lincoln
G.J. MELIA
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On the men's side, Kansas grabbed the first place in the 3,000 meters for the third straight meet, this time junior Jacob Morgan finishing top position.
The final two wins came in the 4-x-400 meter relay, with both the men's and women's teams finishing first. The women's relay team of junior Rhavean King and sophomores Adriana Newell, Whitney Adams and Zainab Sanni ended with a time of 3:45.20, finishing just five-tenths of a second ahead of
The Kansas track and field team traveled to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational Friday and Saturday, where the Jayhawks brought home four event victories.
The first win came on the women's side, where sophomore Nashia Baker notched the first spot in the mile. She was followed by two other Jayhawks, junior Kelli McKenna and freshman Alaina Schroeder, to complete the top three sweep of the event.
Maryland.
The relay team of seniors Michael Stigler, Kenneth McCuin and Jaime Wilson and freshman Tre Daniels finished in 3:12.90, just edging Iowa for the win.
Junior pole vaulter Casey Bowen capped a successful showing with a second place finish, jumping to a personal best height of 17 feet 11 inches.
Coach Stanley Redwine said the team's showing was one of the best of the season, and hopes to add to the Jayhawks' success in the next meet.
"It was a much better team effort and that has been something that the coaches and I have been really trying to emphasize a lot more," Redwine said in the University's press release.
Kansas will split into two separate teams in the coming weekend, as one team will compete in the ISU Classic in Ames, Iowa and the other will head down to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the Tyson Invitational hosted by Arkansas.
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