Maryland Honors Lefty Driesell with Jersey Patch for Rest of CBB Season After Death

The University of Maryland men's basketball team will wear a patch honoring late coach Lefty Driesell for the remainder of the 2023-24 season.

Driesell, who coached at Maryland from 1969 to 1986, died Feb. 17 at the age of 92.

A 2018 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, Driesell was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1975 and 1980 and won the 1984 ACC conference tournament. He resigned in 1986 and took a job in the athletics department amid the fallout from star Len Bias overdosing and dying on campus.

James Madison hired Driesell in 1988, and he had a successful nine-year run at the program, winning five regular-season conference championships and the 1994 CAA conference tournament. Driesell finished his coaching career at Georgia State, reaching the second round of the 2001 NCAA tournament.

Across his 41 seasons as a head coach, Driesell posted a 786-394 record. He ranks 16th on the all-time wins list in men's college basketball.

The University of Maryland inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2002.