Charles “Lefty” Driesell is 89 and will turn 90 on Christmas Day. He’s been out of the ACC since 1986, when he resigned in the wake of the Len Bias scandal (for anyone who doesn’t know, Bias died of a cocaine-induced heart attack the night he was drafted by the Boston Celtics and Driesell was ultimately forced out in the aftermath).
During his time in the conference though, Driesell, a Duke graduate, was something else.
He came to Maryland in 1970 after a brilliant turn at Davidson, leading the Wildcats to two elite eights in his final two years and a 27-3 season before departing for Maryland, famously promising to turn it into the “UCLA of the East.