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The Dean's List: A Celebration of Tar Heel Basketball and Dean Smith

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The Dean's List details every year of North Carolina basketball during Dean Smith's reign as coach. You get a brief commentary from Art Chansky, alot of good pictures and a team roster. The championship year of 1982 gets special attention, which is justified as it was a special team. You're not going to find any major revelations amongst these pages, but if you are a fan of Carolina basketball, this is an enjoyable read.

The second I opened it I could not put it down! I love tarheel basketball. Everthing you want to know about tarheel basketball is in this book, baby!!

The problem with this book is not the content; Chansky's stories are often interesting. The real problem is that Chansky has serious problems with the English language. Scarcely a page goes by without a mangled mixed metaphor or breathless cliche. If you're a Carolina fan though, you probably won't notice.

I really enjoy this book, I wish that Art Chansky had waited until Smith past Adouph Rupp (which we all knew was going to happen) to release this masterpiece (Now I have to go out and by another editon of the same book!!!) None the less this is something all true blue fans need more than oxygen!! Congrats, Dean, we miss you. GO TAR HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As an avid UNC fan, and Art Chansky fan in particular, this is his best work to date. Informative and exciting, the examinations of coach the person were what I found the most interesting

As a life long Tar Heel fan and alum, this book was one I had to have. It chronicles and illustrates all of Dean's teams from 1961 through 1996. I was blown away by never before seen photographs and stories of Tar Heel teams of the past. Rosters were provided on a yearly basis, but statistics and game scores are missing from this otherwise definitive work. It's not all blue either. The author documents some of the failed strategies and decisions made by the coach of the century. In the end, however it is Dean's World not Dean's List

I really liked the book. I never thought anyone could write that much good information in a book. And all of it be true

Great pictures, great memories, and great storie