Donald Smith (October 10, 1951 – March 9, 2004) was an American professional basketball player.

[2] He still holds the Flyers' single-game scoring record; he scored 52 points his junior season against Loyola University Chicago at Chicago Stadium, and he also had a 44-point game that season against Xavier University in which he was 20-for-25 from the field.

[2] As a senior in 1973–74, Smith averaged 18.0 points per game but with a career-best .469 field goal percentage and an .888 free throw percentage as the Flyers, after consecutive 13–13 seasons, went 20-9 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen.

[2] There, Smith scored 36 points in a memorable triple-overtime, 111–100 loss to the Bill Walton-led UCLA Bruins.

[6] Smith had been on dialysis for two years and was on Ohio State University's waiting list for a kidney donor when, after being hospitalized for two weeks with heart problems, he died on March 9, 2004, at age 52.