Lefty Driesell

This is the story of a legitimate basketball legend known as "Lefty"

Teamed "THE
GREATEST PROGRAM BUILDER IN THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL" after
winning more than a hundred games at four different Division I schools, all
of which had fallen on hard times or never enjoyed hoops success, Lefty
Driesell was a transcendent figure in his sport for more than forty years.

Despite never coaching
at one of the college game's traditional powers, and despite losing two
seasons in the middle of his career due to the tragic actions of another,
Driesell still ended his career as the fourth "winningest" college
coach at the time he retired in 2003 with 786 victories, coaching at
Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State.

Included in his legacy is the tradition start of the preseason practice
called Midnight Madness, assistant coaches who would later accumulate more
than 2,500 Division I wins as head coaches, incentives for expansion of the
NCAA Tournament to more than just conference champions, recruitment of the
first African-American players at previously all-white schools in the South,
and revolutionary recruiting tactics that would prompt NCAA legislation.

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