Charles William Driesell was born on November 3,1962 and is an American basketball coach who is the boys' varsity basketball head coach at the Maret School in Washington, DC Formerly a college basketball coach, Driesell served as an assistant coach under Gary Williams at the University of Maryland, spent six seasons as head coach at Marymount University, and was head coach at The Citadel from 2010 to 2015.
14 Facts About Chuck Driesell
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Chuck Driesell is the son of former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, and played for his father's team in college.
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Chuck Driesell was named the new boys' basketball coach at the Maret School in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2015.
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Chuck Driesell was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of Davidson College basketball coach Charles Grice "Lefty" Chuck Driesell.
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Lefty Chuck Driesell coached there from 1969 to 1986 and invented the "Midnight Madness" rally.
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Chuck Driesell attended the University of Maryland, and played on the basketball team coached by his father as a shooting guard from 1981 to 1985.
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Chuck Driesell participated in four postseason tournaments and was a member of the 1984 Atlantic Coast Conference championship team.
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Chuck Driesell received Academic All-American honors and made the ACC Honor Roll three years.
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Chuck Driesell graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in business marketing.
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Chuck Driesell coached there until 1994, and during that time, the Dukes won five consecutive outright or shared Colonial Athletic Association regular-season championships, which was an NCAA record at the time.
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From 1997 to 2003, Chuck Driesell was the head coach at Marymount University, a Division III school in Arlington, Virginia.
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In 2006, Chuck Driesell was hired by Gary Williams as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland, the alma mater of both men.
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Chuck Driesell replaced Ed Conroy, who had left for Tulane.
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Since being at The Citadel, Chuck Driesell has won only 27.1 percent of his games.