Famous college basketball coach Charles “Lefty” Driesell, who directed the University of Maryland Terrapins for 16 years, has actually passed away at age 92, his household stated Saturday. Submit Photo by the University of Maryland/Wikimedia Commons
Feb. 17 (UPI)– Hall of Fame males’s college basketball coach Charles “Lefty” Driesell, best understood for his long and vibrant perform at the University of Maryland, has actually passed away, his household revealed Saturday. He was 92.
Driesell was the very first to coach 4 NCAA Division I schools to a minimum of 100 wins each throughout stints at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State universities, assembling a profession training record of 786-394.
Driesell made 9 conference coach of the year awards in the ACC, Southern, CAA and Atlantic Sun conferences.
He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2018.
Driesell coached high school basketball for 9 seasons before accepting the head training position for Davidson, where he assembled a 176-65 record from 1961-1969.
He is most recognized for training the University of Maryland Terrapins from 1970-1986 as they assembled a 348-159 record under his watch.
“Lefty Driesell was a transcendent figure in college basketball and the male who put Maryland basketball on the map,” Terrapins Athletic Director Damon Evans stated in a declaration
“Lefty was an innovator, a guy who led his time from his training on the court to his marketing off the court. His memory will be permanently engraved in Maryland basketball history,” he stated.
Driesell left Maryland in the consequences of the death of star gamer Len Biaswho passed away from a drug overdose 2 days after the Boston Celtics prepared him 2nd total throughout the 1986 NBA draft.
Driesell later coached James Madison to a 159-111 record from 1988 through 1996 and Georgia State to a 103-59 record from 1998 to 2003.
Driesell played college basketball at Duke, making 2 university letters in 1953 and 1954, and belongs to the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, which he participated 1993.
“Today we grieve the loss of among college basketball’s exceptional coaches and fantastic guys, Lefty Driesell,” Duke head coach Jon Scheyer informed the Duke Chronicle“On behalf of our program, we provide our inmost compassions to the friends and family he affected so exceptionally.”