Drake University head coach Darian DeVries was named the Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year on Thursday morning. In just his third season at the helm of Drake, DeVries has earned the league's top coaching honor two times (2019 and this year).
DeVries edged Loyola's Porter Moser by 28 points in the voting (122 to 94) and garnered 32 of 50 first-place votes.
DeVries has guided the Bulldogs to 24 wins in his third season to tie for the third most wins in program history along with his 2018-19 team. The 24 wins marked the Bulldogs' third-straight 20-win season, a feat that has only occurred once before in program history and not in the last 50 years.