Hall of Fame college basketball coach Charles Grice “Lefty” Driesell, who won 786 career games while leading four different Division I schools to 100 victories, died Saturday morning his family announced. He was 92.
Driesell coached Division I basketball for 41 seasons — at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and Georgia State — and when he retired in 2003, only Bob Knight, Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith had won more games. He reached the NCAA tournament at all four schools and took Maryland and Davidson to the Elite Eight twice each.
He was known as much for his personality as for his success on the court, with his big, booming voice, his Virginia Tidewater drawl and his comic style of storytelling.