Among the many descriptions people have come up with for Lefty Driesell, the best one came my late colleague, longtime Post columnist Ken Denlinger.
Lefty, he wrote in 1984, was “God’s unique [Christmas] gift to the world” in 1931. Unique indeed.
Lefty died Saturday morning at 92, after as unique a life as anyone has ever led.
He was a great, yet often underrated coach. He won 786 games and reached the Elite Eight four times — twice at Davidson and twice at Maryland. But he had the misfortune to coach in the ACC for 17 years against Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, Norman Sloan and his former pupil, Terry Holland — who, among all of those who did Lefty imitations, did the best one of all.