In March 2015, CBS Sports extensively detailed the incredible resistance against his own body that Smith endured throughout 2014, including a cardiac arrest episode that left him unconscious and technically dead for 22 minutes. Within a year he'd be done with the hellish chemotherapy treatments, but come the spring of 2015, his struggle had returned and morphed into a fight against leukemia. Later that year he began his basketball career in Europe, but by December it became clear to him there was something wrong with his body. Days after graduating from Butler in May of 2013, Andrew and Sam married. Smith's life was cut short by a relentless battle with cancer, one that first surfaced in late 2013. Sam Smith first shared the news of Andrew's death via Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.Īndrew peacefully passed away in his sleep and in my arms as I told him I loved him this morning. in Indianapolis at University Hospital's Simon Bone Marrow Transplant Center. Smith's father, Curt, told CBS Sports his son passed at 10:55 a.m. Andrew Smith, the workmanlike big man who helped establish Butler's rise to national college basketball prominence, died on Tuesday morning in the arms of his wife, Sam.
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