Father of Chuck Driesell, whom he coached while at the University of Maryland.
One of three coaches to take four different schools (Davidson,
Maryland, James Madison, Georgia State) to the NCAA Tournament. Eddie
Sutton and Jim Harrick have also accomplished this feat.
With 786 victories, Driesell is the fifth winningest coach in NCAA
history.
Credited with inventing "Midnight Madness," a celebration that
coincides with a basketball team's first practice of the season, held
on the Friday closest to October 15th. The first one was held at UMD-
College Park's Cole Field House in 1970.
Proclaimed that he would make Maryland "The UCLA of the East" when he
accepted the job in 1969.
After winning the ACC Tournament in 1984, he boasted that he would put
the trophy on the hood of his Cadillac and drive across Tobacco Road
with it.
Retired from coaching at age 71. (January 2003)
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.