» Read discussion on Lefty Driesell 07/12/11 Here's how well respected college basketball official Otis "Cootie" Allmond was: He cost Davidson College an unbeaten record and No. 2 national ranking with a seldom-enforced, last-second call on a desperation play, and then-Wildcats' coach Lefty Driesell admires the decision.
05/25/11 PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. Lefty Driesell hasn't given up coaching, not even after his induction into the Southern Conference Hall of Fame on Tuesday night. Driesell says he's continually giving tips to son Chuck, who spent his first year as head coach at The Citadel this past winter. "But he's like all children, he doesn't listen," Lefty said. Driesell was among six ...
05/24/11 CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Lefty Driesell hasn't given up coaching, not even after his induction into the Southern Conference Hall of Fame on Monday night. Driesell says he's continually giving tips to son Chuck, who spent his first year as head coach of The Citadel this past winter.
04/05/11 Coaching stability used to define ACC basketball. Dean Smith, Terry Holland, Lefty Driesell, Bobby Cremins, Norm Sloan, Carl Tacy and Jim Valvano worked at least a decade in the conference, as have Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Maryland's Gary Williams presently.
03/29/11 South Carolina senior forward Sam Muldrow has been named to the 2011 Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America team, it was announced late last week. Rather than selecting a first, second, third team and honorable mentions, the Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America squad is just one team.
03/29/11 South Carolina senior forward Sam Muldrow has been named to the 2011 Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America team, it was announced late last week.
02/16/11 Former basketball coach Lefty Driesell among this year's inductees
02/08/11 Glenn Robinson has more victories than Lute Olsen, Lefty Driesell, Phog Allen, John Chaney, Jerry Tarkanian, Denny Crum, John Wooden and all but 12 coaches in the history of college basketball. Yet read those names to the average sports fan, ask him which one he's never heard of, and he'll almost certainly utter Robinson 's name.
11/07/10 Lefty Driesell can't forget his first trip to the Robins Center. On Dec. 2, 1972, Driesell's Maryland team was the guest for the University of Richmond's inaugural game at the on-campus arena. The Terps breezed to an 82-50 win. That wasn't the memorable part. Driesell's new Lincoln had to be ...
06/16/10 Every coach he's worked for has had a big influence on his career, Lance Von Vogt says. But none, perhaps, so much as Lefty Driesell, the famed college basketball coach who amassed 786 Division I wins.
04/27/10 Chuck Driesell didn't play four years and work another nine for his father, famously temperamental basketball coach Lefty Driesell, without learning a few tricks of the trade.
04/03/10 Mississippi State center Jarvis Varnado won the inaugural Lefty Driesell Award as the nation's top defender Friday.
03/15/10 1958 -- beat Boston College 86-63; lost to Temple 71-67; beat Manhattan 59-55. Lefty Driesell 1973 -- beat Syracuse 91-75; lost to Providence 103-89. 1975 -- beat Creighton 83-79; beat Notre Dame 83-71; lost to Louisville 96-82. 1980 -- beat Tennessee 86-75; lost to Georgetown 74-68. 1981 -- beat Tennessee-Chattanooga 81-69; lost to Indiana 99-64. 1983 -- beat Tennessee-Chattanooga 52-51; lost ...
08/07/09 Maryland's search for a big man in the 2010 class has apparently led to a legacy recruit. "That was exciting," said Henderson's mother, Carol, who is from College Park, Md., and went to the same church as then-Terps coach Lefty Driesell and his family. | 
