A native of Chapel Hill, Julian looked up to Smith, who had been friends with his father, also a North Carolina alum. The V-neck look on the Hornets jersey was a nod to Smith and the North ...

UNC basketball’s Larry Miller, one of the all-time greats for the Tar Heels and a College Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, died May 11 in Bethlehem, Pa. Miller, 79, was a two-time ACC Player of ...

He is a native son of North Carolina who learned a lot of what he has ever known from Dean Smith, who was born in Kansas, attended KU and played for Phog Allen. Through Smith, who was the original ...

Alfred Smith, Dean Smith’s father ... itself decades later along the sides of his team’s basketball jerseys at North Carolina. Nowadays, anyone who walks into the main office at Emporia ...

Miller, 79, was a two-time ACC Player of the Year and ACC Tournament MVP across his three seasons at UNC from 1966-68 under head coach Dean Smith. Miller’s No. 44 jersey hangs from the rafters a ...

North Carolina and Kansas share more college basketball history than perhaps any two other schools. From Dean Smith to Roy Williams ... the retired and honored jerseys hanging even higher than ...