{"id":38813,"date":"2024-02-17T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/?p=38813"},"modified":"2024-02-17T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:06:39","slug":"rip-leftydriesell-legendary-maryland-coach-and-giant-of-acc-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2024\/02\/17\/rip-leftydriesell-legendary-maryland-coach-and-giant-of-acc-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Lefty Driesell – Legendary Maryland Coach, and giant of ACC basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ACC_Basketball-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38814\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2024\/02\/17\/rip-leftydriesell-legendary-maryland-coach-and-giant-of-acc-basketball\/acc_basketball-94\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ACC_Basketball-5.jpg?fit=124%2C124&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"124,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"ACC_Basketball\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ACC_Basketball-5.jpg?fit=124%2C124&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ACC_Basketball-5.jpg?fit=124%2C124&ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ACC_Basketball-5.jpg?resize=124%2C124\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the giants of ACC basketball in the 1970s and 1980s passed away today.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell passed away Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Maryland Athletics mourns the passing of Hall of Fame head coach Lefty Driesell.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace, Coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/97klFtuxNC\">https:\/\/t.co\/97klFtuxNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maryland Terrapins (@umterps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/umterps\/status\/1758867495396503728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Check out some of Driesell’s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lefty_Driesell\">coaching history here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driesell was a big part of what made ACC basketball must see college athletics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fallsportsdacc&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH80neHSsrNqatIx7rdXWPR9U0_VA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252Fallsportsdacc%26sa%3DD%26sntz%3D1%26usg%3DAFQjCNH80neHSsrNqatIx7rdXWPR9U0_VA&source=gmail&ust=1486166502870000&usg=AFQjCNGgOzqUxiig-tlkIjyFOnLEhGtpRQ\">@AllSportsDACC<\/a>\u00a0and please like our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FAll-Sports-Discussion%2F184935911533629%3Ffref%3Dts&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEWEAihdwfmDazuSSnX5l4sK20orQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252Fpages%252FAll-Sports-Discussion%252F184935911533629%253Ffref%253Dts%26sa%3DD%26sntz%3D1%26usg%3DAFQjCNEWEAihdwfmDazuSSnX5l4sK20orQ&source=gmail&ust=1486166502870000&usg=AFQjCNGr19chQ7IW8VRHn1DFxQH94mz21A\">Facebook Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<br>\n<center>\n\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Bottom_Post -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\"\n data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1227879969298088\"\n data-ad-slot=\"1445137322\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<br>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Horizontal_6 -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\"\n data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1227879969298088\"\n data-ad-slot=\"4619304738\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the giants of ACC basketball in the 1970s and 1980s passed away today. Legendary Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell passed away Saturday. Maryland Athletics mourns the passing of Hall of Fame head coach Lefty Driesell. Rest in Peace, Coach. https:\/\/t.co\/97klFtuxNC \u2014 Maryland Terrapins (@umterps) February 17, 2024 Check out some of Driesell’s coaching … <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2024\/02\/17\/rip-leftydriesell-legendary-maryland-coach-and-giant-of-acc-basketball\/\">Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acc","category-college-basketball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Ih8i-a61","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38816,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813\/revisions\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}