Dean Smith's legendary coaching career that includes two national championships and 879 wins has been well documented.
A new addition to the University Libraries now paints a fuller portrait of the man off the court. Smith's family recently donated to UNC-Chapel Hill 12,000 items from Smith's early years and post-basketball life. They will be part of the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library.
The collection contains school projects and newspaper clippings from Smith's childhood in Emporia, Kansas, and personal letters and speeches from his retirement.
"It tells us about Dean Smith as a person," University Archivist Nicholas Graham said about the collection, which is open to the public.