The head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina is Dean Smith, a man who has accomplished almost everything imaginable in his sport. Retiring at the end of the 1997 season, he won 879 games, breaking the former record held by fellow Kansan Adolph Rupp (876), while losing only 254, a winning percentage of .776. Teams coached by Smith have won two NCAA championships (1982 and 1993), an NIT title (1971) and an Olympic gold medal (1976). Smith, who played for Phog Allen at Kansas, is one of only two men to play on an NCAA championship team and then coach one. He has won 65 games in NCAA Tourney play, tops in NCAA history. His Tar Heels have made the NCAA tourney 23 straight seasons, another record, and his 11 trips to the Final Four has been topped only by John Wooden's 12. He is the only coach to lead teams to the Final Four in four different decades. A native of Emporia, Smith attended Kansas University on an academic scholarship. He was a member of the Jayhawk basketball teams which won the NCAA championship in 1952 and finished second in 1953. Later served as assistant coach three years each at the Air Force Academy and North Carolina before being named to succeed Frank McGuire as head basketball coach at North Carolina in 1961. Three times voted National Coach-of-the-Year, 1977, 1979, 1982. In 1986, The University of North Carolina dedicated Dean E. Smith Center, a 33.8 million dollar basketball arena named for the Kansas native. Inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.