The Smith Center opened Jan. 18, 1986, with a basketball game pitting the UNC men’s team against the Duke Blue Devils — Dean Smith on the UNC bench, Mike Krzyzewski on the other — as the ...

The Dean E. Smith Center, which opened in 1986, is a big basketball house. Perhaps too big. Certainly aging. ... “The restrooms are inadequate, the concourse is small. No premium.

Dean Smith Center Replacement. This would require many of the same changes as a renovation, according to the report. Cost estimates and timelines aren’t featured in the 13-page report.

UNC-Chapel Hill could renovate or replace the Dean Smith Center, the iconic home of Tar Heel basketball for nearly 40 years, as part of a larger effort to update the university's building portfolio.

Family, friends, faculty, former players, students and others gathered at the Dean Smith Center on Sunday to remember former UNC basketball coach Dean Smith.

Dean E. Smith Center history The Smith Center opened Jan. 18, 1986, with a basketball game pitting the UNC men’s team against the Duke Blue Devils — Dean Smith on the UNC bench, Mike ...

The North Carolina Tar Heels have played home men’s basketball games at the Smith Center since 1986. UNC leaders are mulling the future of the building.

The move to renovate or replace North Carolina’s Smith Center isn’t a new initiative launched as other new arenas are being built, beautified or enhanced. Those talks began more than a decade ago, ...

The 38-year-old Smith Center has 21,750 seats, which makes it the fourth-largest arena in college basketball behind Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center (22,090), Kentucky’s Rupp Arena (23,000) and ...