- Father of Chuck Driesell, whom he coached while at the University of Maryland.
- One of three coaches to take four different schools (Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, Georgia State) to the NCAA Tournament. Eddie Sutton and Jim Harrick have also accomplished this feat.
- With 786 victories, Driesell is the fifth winningest coach in NCAA history.
- Credited with inventing "Midnight Madness," a celebration that coincides with a basketball team's first practice of the season, held on the Friday closest to October 15th. The first one was held at UMD- College Park's Cole Field House in 1970.
- Proclaimed that he would make Maryland "The UCLA of the East" when he accepted the job in 1969.
- After winning the ACC Tournament in 1984, he boasted that he would put the trophy on the hood of his Cadillac and drive across Tobacco Road with it.
- Retired from coaching at age 71. (January 2003)
- Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.
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